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title: It is not at all unlikely that such a parable as _Brahmadatta and Ma… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not at all unlikely that such a parable as _Brahmadatta and Mallika_ (8) was also related by Gotama, but of this we cannot be certain. Who acts: parable, we. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 255

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It is not at all unlikely that such a parable as \_Brahmadatta and Mallika\_ (8) was also related by Gotama, but of this we cannot be certain.

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**Who acts:** parable, we · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** all

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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 (parable, we), 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:pg74064:1:273
# text = It is not at all unlikely that such a parable as _Brahmadatta and Mallika_ (8) was also related by Gotama, but of this we cannot be certain.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
6	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
8	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Mallika	Mallika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Gotama	Gotama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	obl	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  | all |  | unlikely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | such parable as Brahmadatta and Mallika |  |  |  |  | by Gotama; related *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | can | we |  |  |  |  | of this; certain *property* | tree rules |

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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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