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title: Said the king: “When there is need of rice, you may fetch it; come,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the king: “When there is need of rice, you may fetch it; come, let’s go.” Who acts: king, need, you, ’s. 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 84

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Said the king: “When there is need of rice, you may fetch it; come, let’s go.”

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**Who acts:** king, need, you, ’s · **What happens:** say, be, fetch, come, let, go · **To what, where:** rice, ’s · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, need, you, ’s), 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:pg74064:4:88
# text = Said the king: “When there is need of rice, you may fetch it; come, let’s go.”
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
9	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | need of rice |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** *in a quote* | may | you | rice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | ’s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | ’s *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **need** *in a quote* |  |  | rice |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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