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title: In such wise did he drive the chariot that in no very long time he c… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In such wise did he drive the chariot that in no very long time he came up with the army. Who acts: king, chariot. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 113

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In such wise did he drive the chariot that in no very long time he came up with the army.

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**Who acts:** king, chariot · **What happens:** drive, come up · **To what, where:** chariot, such wise

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, chariot), 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:pg74064:6:113
# text = In such wise did he drive the chariot that in no very long time he came up with the army.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · do-support | king | the chariot |  | such wise |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme in wise=Destination |
| 2 | **come up** | past | the chariot |  |  |  | time | with the army; king *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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