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title: From that time on he mingled with indoor-folk and tested them with t… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: From that time on he mingled with indoor-folk and tested them with the question, “Is there anybody who says I have a fault?” Who acts: place, anybody, I. 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 96

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From that time on he mingled with indoor-folk and tested them with the question, “Is there anybody who says I have a fault?”

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**Who acts:** place, anybody, I · **What happens:** mingle, test, be, say, have · **To what, where:** qualities, fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (place, anybody, I), 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:pg74064:7:101
# text = From that time on he mingled with indoor-folk and tested them with the question, “Is there anybody who says I have a fault?”
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	indoor	indoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tested	test	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
21	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mingle** | past | place |  |  |  | time | with indoor folk | tree rules |
| 2 | **test** | past | place *not said here* | qualities *= quality* |  |  |  | with the question | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | anybody |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I | a fault |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=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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