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title: And Mistress Vedehikā said this to Servant Blackie: “See here, Black… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And Mistress Vedehikā said this to Servant Blackie: “See here, Blackie!” Who acts: Mistress. 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 71

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And Mistress Vedehikā said this to Servant Blackie: “See here, Blackie!”

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**Who acts:** Mistress · **What happens:** say, servant, see · **To what, where:** this, Blackie · **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 (Mistress), 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:pg74064:9:76
# text = And Mistress Vedehikā said this to Servant Blackie: “See here, Blackie!”
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Servant	servant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	Blackie	Blackie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Blackie	Blackie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Mistress | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **servant** | infinitive | Mistress *not said here* | Blackie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Blackie |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blackie=Stimulus |

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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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