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title: Again dividing into two packs, they fought with each other until one… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Again dividing into two packs, they fought with each other until one pack of two hundred and fifty had killed the other. Who acts: Riches. 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 125

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Again dividing into two packs, they fought with each other until one pack of two hundred and fifty had killed the other.

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**Who acts:** Riches · **What happens:** divide, fight, kill · **To what, where:** two packs, one pack

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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 (Riches), 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:pg74064:8:127
# text = Again dividing into two packs, they fought with each other until one pack of two hundred and fifty had killed the other.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dividing	divide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	8	obl	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | gerund | Riches *= rich* *not said here* |  |  | two packs | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fight** | past | Riches *= rich* |  |  |  |  | with each | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | one pack of two hundred |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer other=Result |

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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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