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title: And Mistress Vedehikā had a servant named Blackie who was capable an… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And Mistress Vedehikā had a servant named Blackie who was capable and industrious and performed her duties well. Who acts: Mistress, servant. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 45

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And Mistress Vedehikā had a servant named Blackie who was capable and industrious and performed her duties well.

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**Who acts:** Mistress, servant · **What happens:** have, name, be, perform · **To what, where:** servant, duties

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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, servant), 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:pg74064:9:50
# text = And Mistress Vedehikā had a servant named Blackie who was capable and industrious and performed her duties well.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	Blackie	Blackie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Mistress | a servant |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a servant *not said here* |  |  |  | Blackie *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | a servant |  |  |  |  | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **perform** | past | Mistress *not said here* | mistress's duties |  |  |  | well *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=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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