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title: The result was that after a time Mistress Vedehikā acquired the foll… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The result was that after a time Mistress Vedehikā acquired the following evil reputation: “Cruel is Mistress Vedehikā, no meek woman is Mistress Vedehikā, no tranquil woman is Mistress Vedehikā!” Who acts: result, meek woman, tranquil woman. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Bu
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 82

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The result was that after a time Mistress Vedehikā acquired the following evil reputation: “Cruel is Mistress Vedehikā, no meek woman is Mistress Vedehikā, no tranquil woman is Mistress Vedehikā!”

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**Who acts:** result, meek woman, tranquil woman · **What happens:** be, follow · **To what, where:** Cruel Mistress, 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 (result, meek woman, tranquil 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:pg74064:9:87
# text = The result was that after a time Mistress Vedehikā acquired the following evil reputation: “Cruel is Mistress Vedehikā, no meek woman is Mistress Vedehikā, no tranquil woman is Mistress Vedehikā!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	case	_	_
13	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Cruel	cruel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	meek	meek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	tranquil	tranquil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
34	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the result |  |  |  |  | a time Mistress *nsubj*; the evil reputation *obj*; acquire *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Cruel Mistress and Mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | no meek woman | Mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | no tranquil woman | 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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