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title: When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the persona… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the lion was I myself.” Who acts: Teacher, Birth story, lion. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 10

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When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the lion was I myself.”

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**Who acts:** Teacher, Birth story, lion · **What happens:** relate, identify, follow, be · **To what, where:** parable, personages, Birth story, hare

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teacher, Birth story, lion), 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:pg74064:11:10
# text = When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the lion was I myself.”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	identified	identify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	At	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	conj	_	_
29	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past · perfect | the Teacher | this parable |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme |
| 2 | **identify** | past | Teacher | the personages |  | the Birth story | time |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | present | the Birth story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the lion | hare |  |  |  | myself *obl:unmarked* | 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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