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title: The fowler also, busy every moment until sunset disentangling the ne… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The fowler also, busy every moment until sunset disentangling the net, got nothing, and went home absolutely empty-handed. Who acts: sunset. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 110

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The fowler also, busy every moment until sunset disentangling the net, got nothing, and went home absolutely empty-handed.

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**Who acts:** sunset · **What happens:** disentangle, get, go, hand · **To what, where:** net, nothing

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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 (sunset), 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:pg74064:5:114
# text = The fowler also, busy every moment until sunset disentangling the net, got nothing, and went home absolutely empty-handed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	disentangling	disentangle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disentangle** | gerund | sunset *not said here* | the net |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | past | sunset | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | absolutely *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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