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title: The ogre shook off every one of those arrows, letting them fall righ… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The ogre shook off every one of those arrows, letting them fall right at his feet, and approached the Future Buddha. Who acts: ogre, men. 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 15

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The ogre shook off every one of those arrows, letting them fall right at his feet, and approached the Future Buddha.

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**Who acts:** ogre, men · **What happens:** shake off, let, fall, approach · **To what, where:** one, men, feet, Future Buddha

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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 (ogre, men), 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:pg74064:8:15
# text = The ogre shook off every one of those arrows, letting them fall right at his feet, and approached the Future Buddha.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake off** | past | the ogre | every one of that arrows |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **let** | gerund | the ogre *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  | ogre's feet |  | right *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 4 | **approach** | past |  | the Future Buddha |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=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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