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title: Do you, this moment released from my hand, even as the moon is relea… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you, this moment released from my hand, even as the moon is released from the Jaws of Rāhu, go gladden the circle of your kinsfolk and well-wishers!” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 56

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Do you, this moment released from my hand, even as the moon is released from the Jaws of Rāhu, go gladden the circle of your kinsfolk and well-wishers!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** release, go, gladden · **To what, where:** moment, hand, moon, Jaws, circle

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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 (you), 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:pg74064:8:56
# text = Do you, this moment released from my hand, even as the moon is released from the Jaws of Rāhu, go gladden the circle of your kinsfolk and well-wishers!”
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Jaws	Jaws	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Rāhu	Rāhu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	gladden	gladden	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	kinsfolk	kinsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	wishers	wisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | participle |  | this moment *not said here* |  | my hand |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **release** | present · passive |  | the moon |  | the Jaws of Rāhu |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **go** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **gladden** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the circle of your kinsfolk and wishers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus circle=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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