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title: Thereupon Servant Blackie, with broken head streaming with blood, co… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon Servant Blackie, with broken head streaming with blood, complained to the neighbors: “See, my lady, the work of the gentle woman! Who acts: you, broken head, neighbors, gentle woman. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tre
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 77

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Thereupon Servant Blackie, with broken head streaming with blood, complained to the neighbors: “See, my lady, the work of the gentle woman!

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**Who acts:** you, broken head, neighbors, gentle woman · **What happens:** servant, stream, complain, see, work · **To what, where:** Blackie, blood, neighbors, lady · **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 (you, broken head, neighbors, gentle woman), 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:pg74064:9:82
# text = Thereupon Servant Blackie, with broken head streaming with blood, complained to the neighbors: “See, my lady, the work of the gentle woman!
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Servant	servant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Blackie	Blackie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	complained	complain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **servant** | imperative | you *not said here* | Blackie |  |  |  | with broken head; thereupon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stream** | gerund | broken head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with blood | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=Theme |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | participle |  | blood *not said here* | the neighbors |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbor=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the neighbors *= neighbor* *not said here* | my lady |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus |
| 5 | **work** *in a quote* |  | the gentle woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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