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title: The man sitting by the spoils reflected: “When this fellow returns,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The man sitting by the spoils reflected: “When this fellow returns, this wealth will have to be divided into two portions. Who acts: man, fellow. 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 131

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The man sitting by the spoils reflected: “When this fellow returns, this wealth will have to be divided into two portions.

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**Who acts:** man, fellow · **What happens:** sit, spoil, reflect, return, divide · **To what, where:** man, two portions

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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 (man, fellow), 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:pg74064:8:133
# text = The man sitting by the spoils reflected: “When this fellow returns, this wealth will have to be divided into two portions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spoil** | present | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reflect** | participle | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** *in a quote* | present | this fellow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **divide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive |  | the man |  | two portions |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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