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title: And proclaiming, as though they were good qualities, only the faults… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And proclaiming, as though they were good qualities, only the faults of his own king, he uttered the first stanza: Who acts: king, men. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 126

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And proclaiming, as though they were good qualities, only the faults of his own king, he uttered the first stanza:

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**Who acts:** king, men · **What happens:** proclaim, be, utter, fault · **To what, where:** first stanza, own king

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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, men), 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:pg74064:7:131
# text = And proclaiming, as though they were good qualities, only the faults of his own king, he uttered the first stanza:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	proclaiming	proclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	faults	fault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | as good qualities; the faults of king's own king *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | king | the first stanza |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
| 4 | **fault** |  |  | king's own king |  |  |  |  | nom fault «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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