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title: The king addressed the Future Buddha: “Wise man, this tree is just a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The king addressed the Future Buddha: “Wise man, this tree is just as well cared for now as it was of old. Who acts: king, Wise man, Buddha. 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 86

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The king addressed the Future Buddha: “Wise man, this tree is just as well cared for now as it was of old.

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**Who acts:** king, Wise man, Buddha · **What happens:** address, be · **To what, where:** Future Buddha · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, Wise man, Buddha), 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:pg74064:10:88
# text = The king addressed the Future Buddha: “Wise man, this tree is just as well cared for now as it was of old.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | past | the king | the Future Buddha |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Wise man and this tree |  |  |  |  | care, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Buddha |  |  |  |  | old *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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