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title: Then he reflected: “Where can that fellow be?” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he reflected: “Where can that fellow be?” Who acts: companion. 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 155

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Then he reflected: “Where can that fellow be?”

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**Who acts:** companion · **What happens:** reflect, be

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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 (companion), 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:pg74064:8:157
# text = Then he reflected: “Where can that fellow be?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
9	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | past | companion |  |  |  | then |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | companion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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