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title: You caused a Rain of Riches for others but a moment ago, but you tel… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: You caused a Rain of Riches for others but a moment ago, but you tell us to hold our patience for another year!” Who acts: You. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 122

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You caused a Rain of Riches for others but a moment ago, but you tell us to hold our patience for another year!”

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** cause, tell, hold, rain · **To what, where:** Rain, us, patience, Riches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg74064:8:124
# text = You caused a Rain of Riches for others but a moment ago, but you tell us to hold our patience for another year!”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | You | a Rain of Riches |  |  |  | for others but a moment | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | our patience |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Theme |
| 4 | **rain** |  |  | Riches |  |  |  |  | nom rain «phenomenon 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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