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title: Meeting with no one among either indoor-folk or others who said he h… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Meeting with no one among either indoor-folk or others who said he had a fault, but hearing mentioned only his own good qualities, he went to that region testing the countryside. Who acts: king, others, hearing, region. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 107

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Meeting with no one among either indoor-folk or others who said he had a fault, but hearing mentioned only his own good qualities, he went to that region testing the countryside.

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**Who acts:** king, others, hearing, region · **What happens:** meet, say, have, mention, go, test · **To what, where:** fault, own good qualities, region, countryside · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, others, hearing, region), 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:pg74064:7:112
# text = Meeting with no one among either indoor-folk or others who said he had a fault, but hearing mentioned only his own good qualities, he went to that region testing the countryside.
1	Meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	indoor	indoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	testing	test	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	countryside	countryside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with no one; among either indoor folk or others | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | king | a fault |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient |
| 4 | **mention** *speech: other* | past | hearing | king's own good qualities |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | king |  |  | that region |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to region=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **test** | gerund | that region *not said here* | the countryside |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryside=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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