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title: The rat also came, and with a bow handed over to him wealth amountin… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The rat also came, and with a bow handed over to him wealth amounting to thirty crores. Who acts: rat, bow 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 80

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The rat also came, and with a bow handed over to him wealth amounting to thirty crores.

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**Who acts:** rat, bow wealth · **What happens:** come, hand over, amount · **To what, where:** bow wealth, bow, rat

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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 (rat, bow 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:pg74064:4:84
# text = The rat also came, and with a bow handed over to him wealth amounting to thirty crores.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
10	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	amounting	amount	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	crores	crore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the rat | bow wealth |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hand over** | participle |  | a bow *not said here* | rat |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 3 | **amount** | gerund | bow wealth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to thirty crores | 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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