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title: When he perceived that they had assembled, he would throw a net over… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When he perceived that they had assembled, he would throw a net over them and huddle them all together by trampling the edges. Who acts: Buddha. 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 99

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When he perceived that they had assembled, he would throw a net over them and huddle them all together by trampling the edges.

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** perceive, assemble, throw, huddle, trample · **To what, where:** Quail, net, edges

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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 (Buddha), 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:pg74064:5:103
# text = When he perceived that they had assembled, he would throw a net over them and huddle them all together by trampling the edges.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	huddle	huddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	trampling	trample	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **assemble** | past · perfect · passive |  | Quail |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | would | Buddha | a net |  |  |  | over Quail | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent net=Theme over they=Destination |
| 4 | **huddle** | infinitive | Buddha *not said here* | Quail |  |  |  | together *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 5 | **trample** | gerund | Buddha *not said here* | the edges |  |  |  |  | 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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