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title: At that time a certain quail-hunter used to go to the haunt of the q… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time a certain quail-hunter used to go to the haunt of the quails and attract them by imitating a quail’s whistle. Who acts: quail. 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 98

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At that time a certain quail-hunter used to go to the haunt of the quails and attract them by imitating a quail’s whistle.

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**Who acts:** quail · **What happens:** use, go, attract, imitate, whistle · **To what, where:** certain quail hunter, haunt, Quail, whistle

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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 (quail), 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:pg74064:5:102
# text = At that time a certain quail-hunter used to go to the haunt of the quails and attract them by imitating a quail’s whistle.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	quail	quail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	haunt	haunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	quails	quail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	imitating	imitate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	quail	quail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | a certain quail hunter at that time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the haunt of the quails |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to haunt=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **attract** | infinitive |  | Quail |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **imitate** | gerund |  | a quail's whistle |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme |
| 6 | **whistle** |  | a quail |  |  |  |  |  | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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