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title: Finally he became convinced that fasting and bodily torture were not… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally he became convinced that fasting and bodily torture were not the way of salvation, and abandoned the struggle. Who acts: Gotama, fasting. 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 215

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Finally he became convinced that fasting and bodily torture were not the way of salvation, and abandoned the struggle.

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**Who acts:** Gotama, fasting · **What happens:** become, fast, not be, abandon · **To what, where:** way, struggle

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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, fasting), 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:pg74064:1:231
# text = Finally he became convinced that fasting and bodily torture were not the way of salvation, and abandoned the struggle.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	fasting	fast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	bodily	bodily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Gotama |  |  |  |  | convinced, finally *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | bodily torture *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | fasting | the way |  |  |  | of salvation | tree rules |
| 4 | **abandon** | past | Gotama *not said here* | the struggle |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme struggle=Source |

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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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