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title: The grateful elephant _Title-page_ _Then the elephant with his trunk… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The grateful elephant _Title-page_ _Then the elephant with his trunk caressed the Future Buddha and lifted him up_ Who acts: grateful elephant. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 157

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The grateful elephant \_Title-page\_ \_Then the elephant with his trunk caressed the Future Buddha and lifted him up\_

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**Who acts:** grateful elephant · **What happens:** caress, lift up · **To what, where:** Future Buddha, Buddha

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grateful elephant), 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:pg74064:1:169
# text = The grateful elephant _Title-page_ _Then the elephant with his trunk caressed the Future Buddha and lifted him up_
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	caressed	caress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **caress** | past | the grateful elephant | the Future Buddha |  |  | then | the elephant with Elephant's trunk *nsubj* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lift up** | past | the grateful elephant *not said here* | Buddha |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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