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title: For lack of them, hubbub over litigations in the king’s courtyard ce… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For lack of them, hubbub over litigations in the king’s courtyard ceased. Who acts: hubbub. 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 90

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For lack of them, hubbub over litigations in the king’s courtyard ceased.

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**Who acts:** hubbub · **What happens:** cease, lack · **To what, where:** ministers

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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 (hubbub), 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:pg74064:7:95
# text = For lack of them, hubbub over litigations in the king’s courtyard ceased.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	hubbub	hubbub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	litigations	litigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | hubbub over litigations in the king's courtyard |  |  |  |  | for lack of ministers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lack** |  |  | ministers *= minister* |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state 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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