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title: Every day ministers of justice took their seats in the place of liti… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day ministers of justice took their seats in the place of litigation, but seeing no one come for litigation, departed. Who acts: day ministers, seeing. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 91

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Every day ministers of justice took their seats in the place of litigation, but seeing no one come for litigation, departed.

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**Who acts:** day ministers, seeing · **What happens:** take, see, come, depart · **To what, where:** seats, place, one

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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 (day ministers, seeing), 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:pg74064:7:96
# text = Every day ministers of justice took their seats in the place of litigation, but seeing no one come for litigation, departed.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	litigation	litigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	litigation	litigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | every day ministers of justice | ministers's seats |  | the place of litigation |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seat=Value in place=Location |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | seeing |  |  |  |  | for litigation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **depart** | participle | seeing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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