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title: They bandied words and wrangled with each other, saying, “You alone,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: They bandied words and wrangled with each other, saying, “You alone, I suppose, lift the net!” Who acts: manner. 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 124

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They bandied words and wrangled with each other, saying, “You alone, I suppose, lift the net!”

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**Who acts:** manner · **What happens:** bandy, wrangle, say, suppose, lift · **To what, where:** words, net · **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 (manner), 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:pg74064:5:128
# text = They bandied words and wrangled with each other, saying, “You alone, I suppose, lift the net!”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bandied	bandy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wrangled	wrangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bandy** | past | manner | words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wrangle** | participle | manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with each | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | manner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | You *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present | manner |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **lift** *in a quote* | present |  | the net |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme |

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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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