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title: Of Mistress Vedehikā prevailed the following excellent reputation: “… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Of Mistress Vedehikā prevailed the following excellent reputation: “Gentle is Mistress Vedehikā, meek is Mistress Vedehikā, tranquil is Mistress Vedehikā.” Who acts: Mistress, Gentle. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 44

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Of Mistress Vedehikā prevailed the following excellent reputation: “Gentle is Mistress Vedehikā, meek is Mistress Vedehikā, tranquil is Mistress Vedehikā.”

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**Who acts:** Mistress, Gentle · **What happens:** prevail, follow, be · **To what, where:** excellent reputation, Mistress, meek Mistress, tranquil Mistress

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, Gentle), 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:pg74064:9:49
# text = Of Mistress Vedehikā prevailed the following excellent reputation: “Gentle is Mistress Vedehikā, meek is Mistress Vedehikā, tranquil is Mistress Vedehikā.”
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
7	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Gentle	gentle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	meek	meek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	tranquil	tranquil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
24	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | past | Mistress | the excellent reputation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Gentle | Mistress and meek Mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Gentle *not said here* | meek Mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | tranquil Mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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