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title: When he made that sound, from the tip of the tree came the woodpecke… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When he made that sound, from the tip of the tree came the woodpecker and out of the water came the tortoise. Who acts: Hunter, woodpecker, tortoise. 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 22

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When he made that sound, from the tip of the tree came the woodpecker and out of the water came the tortoise.

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**Who acts:** Hunter, woodpecker, tortoise · **What happens:** make, come · **To what, where:** sound, tip

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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 (Hunter, woodpecker, tortoise), 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:pg74064:7:24
# text = When he made that sound, from the tip of the tree came the woodpecker and out of the water came the tortoise.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Hunter | that sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product |
| 2 | **come** | past | the woodpecker |  |  | the tip of the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tip=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | the tortoise |  |  |  |  | of the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of water=Initial\_Location |

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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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