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title: At that time the Future Buddha, seeing that army running away, asked… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time the Future Buddha, seeing that army running away, asked: “What’s this?” Who acts: Future Buddha, army. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 127

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At that time the Future Buddha, seeing that army running away, asked: “What’s this?”

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha, army · **What happens:** see, run away, ask · **To what, where:** army

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Future Buddha, army), 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:pg74064:10:131
# text = At that time the Future Buddha, seeing that army running away, asked: “What’s this?”
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | the Future Buddha *not said here* | that army |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run away** | gerund | that army *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Future Buddha |  |  |  | time |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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