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title: As he proceeded, he saw farther on five hundred thieves who had met… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: As he proceeded, he saw farther on five hundred thieves who had met destruction; farther on yet, two hundred and fifty; and so on until finally he came upon two. Who acts: teacher, hundred thieves. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its dependenc
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 146

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As he proceeded, he saw farther on five hundred thieves who had met destruction; farther on yet, two hundred and fifty; and so on until finally he came upon two.

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**Who acts:** teacher, hundred thieves · **What happens:** proceed, see, meet, come · **To what, where:** hundred thieves, destruction, two

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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 (teacher, hundred thieves), 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:pg74064:8:148
# text = As he proceeded, he saw farther on five hundred thieves who had met destruction; farther on yet, two hundred and fifty; and so on until finally he came upon two.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
29	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past | teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | teacher |  |  | hundred thieves | yet | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **meet** | past · perfect | hundred thieves | destruction |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | teacher |  |  | two |  | finally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon two=Location |

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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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