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title: For although he has been caught by an ogre like me, he appears neith… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For although he has been caught by an ogre like me, he appears neither to tremble nor to quake! Who acts: ogre. 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 40

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For although he has been caught by an ogre like me, he appears neither to tremble nor to quake!

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**Who acts:** ogre · **What happens:** catch, appear, tremble, quake · **To what, where:** ogre

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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), 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:pg74064:8:40
# text = For although he has been caught by an ogre like me, he appears neither to tremble nor to quake!
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
15	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	quake	quake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present · perfect · passive | a ogre like me | ogre |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | present | ogre |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tremble** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **quake** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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