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title: And Prince Dīghāvu, residing outside of the city, in no very long ti… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And Prince Dīghāvu, residing outside of the city, in no very long time acquired all the arts and crafts. Who acts: Dīghāvu, long time. 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 20

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And Prince Dīghāvu, residing outside of the city, in no very long time acquired all the arts and crafts.

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**Who acts:** Dīghāvu, long time · **What happens:** reside, acquire · **To what, where:** city, arts

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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 (Dīghāvu, long time), 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:pg74064:6:20
# text = And Prince Dīghāvu, residing outside of the city, in no very long time acquired all the arts and crafts.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	residing	reside	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	crafts	craft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reside** | gerund | Dīghāvu  Prince |  |  | the city | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside city=Location |
| 2 | **acquire** | participle | no long time *not said here* | all arts and crafts |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset art=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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