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title: Nay rather, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are quenched by love,’ what did yo… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Nay rather, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are quenched by love,’ what did your father mean by that?” Who acts: love. 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 127

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Nay rather, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are quenched by love,’ what did your father mean by that?”

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**Who acts:** love · **What happens:** quench, do, mean · **To what, where:** hatreds, father

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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 (love), 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:pg74064:6:127
# text = Nay rather, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are quenched by love,’ what did your father mean by that?”
1	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
2	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	hatreds	hatred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	quenched	quench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	nsubj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quench** | present · passive | love | hatreds |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | your father |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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