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title: _Buddha_ means _Awakened_ or _Enlightened_, that is to say, awakened… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: _Buddha_ means _Awakened_ or _Enlightened_, that is to say, awakened or enlightened to the cause and the cure of human suffering. Who acts: Buddha, that. 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 181

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\_Buddha\_ means \_Awakened\_ or \_Enlightened\_, that is to say, awakened or enlightened to the cause and the cure of human suffering.

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**Who acts:** Buddha, that · **What happens:** mean, awaken, enlighten, be · **To what, where:** Awakened \_ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Buddha, that), 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:pg74064:1:195
# text = _Buddha_ means _Awakened_ or _Enlightened_, that is to say, awakened or enlightened to the cause and the cure of human suffering.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Enlightened	enlighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	enlightened	enlighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Buddha | Awakened \_ |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent \_=Topic |
| 2 | **awaken** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **enlighten** | participle |  | Awakened \_ *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **awaken** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **enlighten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the cause and the cure of human suffering | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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