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title: Thus did the quest of Buddhahood supplant the quest of Nibbāna. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus did the quest of Buddhahood supplant the quest of Nibbāna. Who acts: quest, Nibbāna. 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 245

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Thus did the quest of Buddhahood supplant the quest of Nibbāna.

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**Who acts:** quest, Nibbāna · **What happens:** do, supplant, quest · **To what, where:** quest

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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 (quest, Nibbāna), 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:pg74064:1:262
# text = Thus did the quest of Buddhahood supplant the quest of Nibbāna.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Buddhahood	Buddhahood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	supplant	supplant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Nibbāna	Nibbāna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the quest |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Eventuality |
| 2 | **supplant** | present | the quest *not said here* | the quest of Nibbāna |  |  |  | of Buddhahood | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quest=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **quest** |  | Nibbāna |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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