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title: For because of a quarrel even a tiny quail brought about the destruc… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For because of a quarrel even a tiny quail brought about the destruction of a noble elephant.” 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 32

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For because of a quarrel even a tiny quail brought about the destruction of a noble elephant.”

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**What happens:** bring, destroy · **To what, where:** tiny quail, noble elephant

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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: 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:pg74064:5:34
# text = For because of a quarrel even a tiny quail brought about the destruction of a noble elephant.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	quail	quail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | participle |  | a tiny quail *not said here* |  |  |  | about the destruction of a noble elephant | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **destroy** |  |  | a noble elephant |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «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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