--- title: He came to the conclusion: “This is the way: I will find out the age… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: He came to the conclusion: “This is the way: I will find out the ages of the two kings and cause the chariot of the younger to turn out and make room for the chariot of the older.” Who acts: king, This, charioteer. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/118/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/) / 118 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 118 He came to the conclusion: “This is the way: I will find out the ages of the two kings and cause the chariot of the younger to turn out and make room for the chariot of the older.” **Who acts:** king, This, charioteer · **What happens:** come, be, find out, cause, turn out, make · **To what, where:** way, ages, chariot, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, This, charioteer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:7:123 # text = He came to the conclusion: “This is the way: I will find out the ages of the two kings and cause the chariot of the younger to turn out and make room for the chariot of the older.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 conclusion conclusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 csubj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 35 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | king | | | | | to the conclusion | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | the way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **find out** *in a quote* | future | the charioteer of the King of Benāres *= charioteer* | the ages of the two kings | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic | | 4 | **cause** *in a quote* | infinitive | the charioteer of the King of Benāres *= charioteer* *not said here* | the chariot | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition chariot=Patient | | 5 | **turn out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present | | room | | | | for the chariot of the older | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for chariot=Asset | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/119/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/)