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title: Now his wife got angry and said: “Day after day you return empty-han… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now his wife got angry and said: “Day after day you return empty-handed; I suppose there is some other household outside you have to provide for too.” Who acts: wife, you, other household. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree an
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 111

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Now his wife got angry and said: “Day after day you return empty-handed; I suppose there is some other household outside you have to provide for too.”

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**Who acts:** wife, you, other household · **What happens:** get, say, return, hand, suppose, be · **To what, where:** Day, other household · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wife, you, other household), 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:pg74064:5:115
# text = Now his wife got angry and said: “Day after day you return empty-handed; I suppose there is some other household outside you have to provide for too.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
26	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Fowler's wife |  |  |  | now | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fowler's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **return** *in a quote* | present | you | Day after day |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hand** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present | Fowler's wife *= wife* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | some other household |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | some other household *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **provide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | some other household *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |

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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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