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title: Instantly from the Great Waveless Hell flames of fire shot forth, en… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly from the Great Waveless Hell flames of fire shot forth, enveloped that man, that betrayer of friends, wrapping him, as it were, in a blanket proper for death and laid hold of him. Who acts: four, fire. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 13

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Instantly from the Great Waveless Hell flames of fire shot forth, enveloped that man, that betrayer of friends, wrapping him, as it were, in a blanket proper for death and laid hold of him.

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**Who acts:** four, fire · **What happens:** shoot, envelop, wrap, be, lay, flame · **To what, where:** Great Hell flames, man, blanket, hold

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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 (four, fire), 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:pg74064:5:13
# text = Instantly from the Great Waveless Hell flames of fire shot forth, enveloped that man, that betrayer of friends, wrapping him, as it were, in a blanket proper for death and laid hold of him.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	Waveless	Waveless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	enveloped	envelop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	betrayer	betrayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	wrapping	wrap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
32	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
37	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past |  |  |  | the Great Hell flames of fire |  | forth, instantly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from flame=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **envelop** | past |  | that man |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **wrap** | gerund |  |  | man |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | four |  |  | a blanket |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | past |  | hold of man |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 6 | **flame** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **hold** |  |  | man |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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