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title: They replied: “He that shall become Buddha is born in the village of… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: They replied: “He that shall become Buddha is born in the village of the Sakyas for the welfare and happiness of mankind; therefore are we joyful and exceeding glad.” Who acts: angels, man, we. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tr
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 184

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They replied: “He that shall become Buddha is born in the village of the Sakyas for the welfare and happiness of mankind; therefore are we joyful and exceeding glad.”

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**Who acts:** angels, man, we · **What happens:** reply, become, bear, be, exceed · **To what, where:** Buddha, village · **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 (angels, man, we), 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:pg74064:1:198
# text = They replied: “He that shall become Buddha is born in the village of the Sakyas for the welfare and happiness of mankind; therefore are we joyful and exceeding glad.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sakyas	Sakya	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
32	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | angels *= angel* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **become** *in a quote* | shall | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Buddha |  | the village of the Sakyas |  | for the welfare and happiness of mankind | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus for welfare=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  | joyful, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **exceed** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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