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title: “When, your majesty, my father said to me in the hour of death: ‘For… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “When, your majesty, my father said to me in the hour of death: ‘For, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are not quenched by hatred. Who acts: father, hatred. 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 132

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“When, your majesty, my father said to me in the hour of death: ‘For, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are not quenched by hatred.

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**Who acts:** father, hatred · **What happens:** say, not quench · **To what, where:** majesty, father, hatreds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (father, hatred), 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:pg74064:6:132
# text = “When, your majesty, my father said to me in the hour of death: ‘For, dear Dīghāvu, hatreds are not quenched by hatred.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	For	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	hatreds	hatred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	quenched	quench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | my father | your majesty *not said here* | father |  | hour |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **quench** *in a quote* | present · passive | hatred | hatreds |  |  |  | for dear Dīghāvu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

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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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