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title: And in no very long time Prince Dīghāvu reached the age of reason. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And in no very long time Prince Dīghāvu reached the age of reason. Who acts: Prince. 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 14

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And in no very long time Prince Dīghāvu reached the age of reason.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** reach · **To what, where:** age

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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 (Prince), 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:pg74064:6:14
# text = And in no very long time Prince Dīghāvu reached the age of reason.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Prince | the age of reason |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=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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