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title: And ascending to the grand floor of his magnificent palace, he cause… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And ascending to the grand floor of his magnificent palace, he caused that wealth to be stored and guarded. Who acts: king. 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 86

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And ascending to the grand floor of his magnificent palace, he caused that wealth to be stored and guarded.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** ascend, cause, store, guard · **To what, where:** grand floor, 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 (king), 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:pg74064:4:90
# text = And ascending to the grand floor of his magnificent palace, he caused that wealth to be stored and guarded.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascend** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  | the grand floor of king's magnificent palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to floor=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cause** | past | king | that wealth |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wealth=Patient |
| 3 | **store** | to-infinitive · passive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **guard** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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