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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 242

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In comparison with the career of the Future Buddha, devoted to the performance of good works, unselfish, generous to the point of sacrificing his own body and blood,--the career of the monk, isolated from the world, selfish, seeking by meditation to uproot craving for worldly pleasures and life and riches, seemed low and mean.

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**Who acts:** point, selfish · **What happens:** devote, sacrifice, isolate, seek, uproot, crave · **To what, where:** comparison, performance, own body, monk, world, good works

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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 (point, selfish), 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:pg74064:1:259
# text = In comparison with the career of the Future Buddha, devoted to the performance of good works, unselfish, generous to the point of sacrificing his own body and blood,--the career of the monk, isolated from the world, selfish, seeking by meditation to uproot craving for worldly pleasures and life and riches, seemed low and mean.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	unselfish	unselfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	isolated	isolate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	selfish	selfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	uproot	uproot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
52	craving	crave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	xcomp	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	worldly	worldly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
61	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
62	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	xcomp	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	61	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devote** | participle |  | comparison with the career of the Future Buddha and the career of the monk and selfish *not said here* |  |  |  | to the performance of good works *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent to performance=Goal |
| 2 | **sacrifice** | gerund | the point *not said here* | Gotama's own body and blood |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 3 | **isolate** | participle |  | the monk *not said here* |  | the world |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from world=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **seek** | gerund | selfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by meditation | tree rules |
| 5 | **uproot** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | selfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **crave** | gerund | selfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for worldly pleasures and life and riches | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for pleasure=Theme |
| 7 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in comparison with the career of the Future Buddha and the career of the monk and selfish; low *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in comparison=Attribute |
| 8 | **perform** |  |  | good works |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication 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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