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title: Now Prince Dīghāvu went to the forest, wailed and wept his fill, and… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Prince Dīghāvu went to the forest, wailed and wept his fill, and wiped his tears away. 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 54

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Now Prince Dīghāvu went to the forest, wailed and wept his fill, and wiped his tears away.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** go, wail, weep, wipe away · **To what, where:** forest, fill, tears

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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:pg74064:6:54
# text = Now Prince Dīghāvu went to the forest, wailed and wept his fill, and wiped his tears away.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wailed	wail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Prince |  |  | the forest | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wail** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weep** | past | Prince *not said here* | Prince's fill |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fill=Theme |
| 4 | **wipe away** | past | Prince *not said here* | Prince's tears |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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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