--- title: “No,” replied the wise man, “this child shall one day become Buddha;… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: “No,” replied the wise man, “this child shall one day become Buddha; out of love and pity for mankind he shall set in motion the Wheel of Religion; far and wide shall his religion be spread. Who acts: wise man, child. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/1/192/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/1/) / 192 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 192 “No,” replied the wise man, “this child shall one day become Buddha; out of love and pity for mankind he shall set in motion the Wheel of Religion; far and wide shall his religion be spread. **Who acts:** wise man, child · **What happens:** reply, become, set, spread · **To what, where:** mankind, motion, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wise man, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:1:206 # text = “No,” replied the wise man, “this child shall one day become Buddha; out of love and pity for mankind he shall set in motion the Wheel of Religion; far and wide shall his religion be spread. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 17 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mankind mankind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Wheel Wheel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Religion Religion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 39 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the wise man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **become** *in a quote* | shall | this child | | | | day | Buddha *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **set** *in a quote* | shall | child | mankind *not said here* | | motion | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mankind=Theme in motion=Destination | | 4 | **spread** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | love for mankind and pity | | | | child's religion *nsubj:pass*; far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/1/191/) - next →: [sentence 193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/1/193/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/1/)