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title: You shall obtain your desire to see at sunrise a fourfold army drawn… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: You shall obtain your desire to see at sunrise a fourfold army drawn up, clad in armor, standing in a pleasant place, and to drink the rinsings of swords.” Who acts: You, your. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 8

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You shall obtain your desire to see at sunrise a fourfold army drawn up, clad in armor, standing in a pleasant place, and to drink the rinsings of swords.”

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**Who acts:** You, your · **What happens:** obtain, see, draw up, clad, stand, drink · **To what, where:** desire, fourfold army, armor, pleasant place, rinsings, swords

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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 (You, your), 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:pg74064:6:8
# text = You shall obtain your desire to see at sunrise a fourfold army drawn up, clad in armor, standing in a pleasant place, and to drink the rinsings of swords.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fourfold	fourfold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rinsings	rinsing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | shall | You | your desire |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  | sunrise |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **draw up** | participle |  | a fourfold army *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **clad** | participle | You *not said here* |  |  | armor |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  | a pleasant place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 6 | **drink** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | the rinsings of swords |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rinsing=Patient |
| 7 | **desire** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **rinse** |  |  | swords |  |  |  |  | nom rinsing «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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