--- title: For the snake and the parrot to eat, he caused every day sweet parch… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: For the snake and the parrot to eat, he caused every day sweet parched grain to be given in a vessel of gold purified with fire; for the rat, grains of perfumed rice; he gave alms and performed the other works of merit. Who acts: parrot, day sweet, merit. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eug --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/88/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/) / 88 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 88 For the snake and the parrot to eat, he caused every day sweet parched grain to be given in a vessel of gold purified with fire; for the rat, grains of perfumed rice; he gave alms and performed the other works of merit. **Who acts:** parrot, day sweet, merit · **What happens:** eat, cause, parch, give, purify, perfume · **To what, where:** grain, vessel, gold, alms, other works 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 (parrot, day sweet, merit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:4:92 # text = For the snake and the parrot to eat, he caused every day sweet parched grain to be given in a vessel of gold purified with fire; for the rat, grains of perfumed rice; he gave alms and performed the other works of merit. 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 11 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 sweet sweet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 parched parch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 purified purify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 perfumed perfume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 40 alms alm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 performed perform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 merit merit NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive | parrot *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cause** | past | parrot | | | | | for the snake and the parrot | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **parch** | past | every day sweet | grain | | | | for the rat grains of perfumed rice | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | | 4 | **give** | to-infinitive · passive | every day sweet *not said here* | grain *not said here* | | a vessel of gold | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V» | | 5 | **purify** | participle | | gold *not said here* | | | | with fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fire=Instrument | | 6 | **perfume** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **give** | past | parrot | alms | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme | | 8 | **perform** | past | parrot *not said here* | the other works of merit | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | | 9 | **work** | | merit | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/89/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/)