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title: The king entrusted to his ministers wealth amounting to forty crores… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The king entrusted to his ministers wealth amounting to forty crores of gold. Who acts: ministers wealth. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 78

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The king entrusted to his ministers wealth amounting to forty crores of gold.

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**Who acts:** ministers wealth · **What happens:** entrust, amount · **To what, where:** king, ministers wealth

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ministers wealth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:4:82
# text = The king entrusted to his ministers wealth amounting to forty crores of gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	amounting	amount	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	crores	crore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entrust** | participle |  | the king *not said here* | king's ministers wealth |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wealth=Recipient |
| 2 | **amount** | gerund | king's ministers wealth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to forty crores of gold | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to crore=Value |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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