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title: When I entered this forest infested by you, I took no account of bow… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When I entered this forest infested by you, I took no account of bows and such-like weapons; when I entered this forest, I took account only of myself. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 24

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When I entered this forest infested by you, I took no account of bows and such-like weapons; when I entered this forest, I took account only of myself.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** enter, infest, take, account · **To what, where:** forest, account, bows

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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 (I), 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:pg74064:8:24
# text = When I entered this forest infested by you, I took no account of bows and such-like weapons; when I entered this forest, I took account only of myself.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	infested	infest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | I | this forest |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination |
| 2 | **infest** | participle |  | this forest *not said here* |  |  |  | by you | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | I | no account of bows and like weapons |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** | past | I | this forest |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination |
| 5 | **take** | past | I | account |  |  |  | of myself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent account=Theme of myself=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | bows and like weapons |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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