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title: For ten years he lived a life of ease, in the enjoyment of all the c… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For ten years he lived a life of ease, in the enjoyment of all the comforts and luxuries which riches and high position could give him. Who acts: Gotama, enjoyment. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 197

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For ten years he lived a life of ease, in the enjoyment of all the comforts and luxuries which riches and high position could give him.

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**Who acts:** Gotama, enjoyment · **What happens:** live, give, enjoy · **To what, where:** life, Gotama, comforts

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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 (Gotama, enjoyment), 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:pg74064:1:211
# text = For ten years he lived a life of ease, in the enjoyment of all the comforts and luxuries which riches and high position could give him.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	comforts	comfort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	luxuries	luxury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	21	det	_	_
21	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Gotama | a life of ease |  |  | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 2 | **give** | could | the enjoyment of all comforts and luxuries and which riches and high position |  | Gotama |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **enjoy** |  |  | all comforts and luxuries and which riches and high position |  |  |  |  | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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