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title: Said the Teacher: “Thus, monks, even to dragons, though the World of… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the Teacher: “Thus, monks, even to dragons, though the World of Dragons wherein they dwell is filled to overflowing with the Seven Jewels, begging is offensive. Who acts: Teacher, Dragon, begging. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its depe
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 142

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Said the Teacher: “Thus, monks, even to dragons, though the World of Dragons wherein they dwell is filled to overflowing with the Seven Jewels, begging is offensive.

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**Who acts:** Teacher, Dragon, begging · **What happens:** say, dwell, fill, overflow, be · **To what, where:** World · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Dragon, begging), 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:pg74064:11:150
# text = Said the Teacher: “Thus, monks, even to dragons, though the World of Dragons wherein they dwell is filled to overflowing with the Seven Jewels, begging is offensive.
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Dragons	Dragon	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
24	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	overflowing	overflow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Seven	Seven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Jewels	Jewel	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	begging	begging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	offensive	offensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Teacher |  |  |  |  | monks and dragons *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dwell** *in a quote* | present | Dragon |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the World of Dragons |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **overflow** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the Seven Jewels | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | begging |  |  |  |  | offensive *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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