--- title: When the net was thrown over them on the following day, they raised… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: When the net was thrown over them on the following day, they raised the net precisely as the Future Buddha had told them to, dropped it on a certain thorn-brake, and themselves escaped from under. Who acts: Quail, Future Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/5/107/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/5/) / 107 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 107 When the net was thrown over them on the following day, they raised the net precisely as the Future Buddha had told them to, dropped it on a certain thorn-brake, and themselves escaped from under. **Who acts:** Quail, Future Buddha · **What happens:** throw, follow, raise, tell, drop, escape · **To what, where:** net, Quail, certain thorn brake · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quail, Future Buddha), 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:pg74064:5:111 # text = When the net was thrown over them on the following day, they raised the net precisely as the Future Buddha had told them to, dropped it on a certain thorn-brake, and themselves escaped from under. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 precisely precisely ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Future Future PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 thorn thorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 brake brake NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 nsubj _ _ 38 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 38 obl _ _ 40 under under ADP IN _ 39 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | past · passive | | the net | | | day | over Quail | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over they=Destination | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **raise** | past | Quail | the net | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Future Buddha | | Quail | | | precisely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 5 | **drop** | past | | net | | a certain thorn brake | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on brake=Destination | | 6 | **escape** | past | Quail | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/5/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/5/108/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/5/)