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title: For the snake to live in, he caused a golden tube to be made; for th… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For the snake to live in, he caused a golden tube to be made; for the rat, a crystal cave; for the parrot, a golden cage. 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 87

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For the snake to live in, he caused a golden tube to be made; for the rat, a crystal cave; for the parrot, a golden cage.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** live in, cause, make · **To what, where:** golden tube

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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:pg74064:4:91
# text = For the snake to live in, he caused a golden tube to be made; for the rat, a crystal cave; for the parrot, a golden cage.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live in** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | past | king | a golden tube |  |  |  | for the snake; the rat and a crystal cave *parataxis*; the parrot and a golden cage *parataxis* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tube=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | king *not said here* | a golden tube *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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