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title: I salute you, solitary elephant, Forest-ranger, pasturing on mountai… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: I salute you, solitary elephant, Forest-ranger, pasturing on mountain and on hill; With my wings I do you homage. Who acts: I. 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 49

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I salute you, solitary elephant, Forest-ranger, pasturing on mountain and on hill; With my wings I do you homage.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** salute, pasture, do · **To what, where:** you, mountain

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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 (I), 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:pg74064:5:51
# text = I salute you, solitary elephant, Forest-ranger, pasturing on mountain and on hill; With my wings I do you homage.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	salute	salute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ranger	ranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	pasturing	pasture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	With	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **salute** | present | I | you |  |  |  | solitary elephant and Forest ranger *obl* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 2 | **pasture** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | mountain and hill |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mountain=Destination |
| 3 | **do** | present | I | you |  |  |  | with my wings; homage *obj* | tree rules |

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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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