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title: And making the forest ring, proclaiming the Truth, the tree-spirit u… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And making the forest ring, proclaiming the Truth, the tree-spirit uttered the following stanza: Who acts: tree spirit. 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 15

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And making the forest ring, proclaiming the Truth, the tree-spirit uttered the following stanza:

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**Who acts:** tree spirit · **What happens:** make, proclaim, utter, follow · **To what, where:** forest ring, Truth, stanza

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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 (tree spirit), 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:pg74064:5:15
# text = And making the forest ring, proclaiming the Truth, the tree-spirit uttered the following stanza:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	proclaiming	proclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
18	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | the forest ring |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product |
| 2 | **proclaim** | gerund |  | the Truth |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the tree spirit | the stanza |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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