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title: Now to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Of my lady m… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Of my lady mistress prevails the following excellent reputation: ‘Gentle is Mistress Vedehikā, meek is Mistress Vedehikā, tranquil is Mistress Vedehikā.’ Who acts: Blackie. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Open
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 46

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Now to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Of my lady mistress prevails the following excellent reputation: ‘Gentle is Mistress Vedehikā, meek is Mistress Vedehikā, tranquil is Mistress Vedehikā.’

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**Who acts:** Blackie · **What happens:** servant, occur, follow, prevail, be · **To what, where:** following thought, excellent reputation, Gentle Mistress, Mistress Mistress, tranquil Mistress · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Blackie), 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:pg74064:9:51
# text = Now to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Of my lady mistress prevails the following excellent reputation: ‘Gentle is Mistress Vedehikā, meek is Mistress Vedehikā, tranquil is Mistress Vedehikā.’
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	Servant	servant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Blackie	Blackie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	prevails	prevail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
18	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Gentle	Gentle	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
25	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	meek	meek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
30	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	tranquil	tranquil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
35	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **servant** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | past | Blackie | the following thought |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **prevail** *in a quote* | present |  | the excellent reputation |  |  |  | of my lady mistress | tree rules |
| 5 | **follow** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Gentle Mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Mistress Mistress and tranquil Mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **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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