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title: For, monks, if that monk had suffused the four royal families of sna… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For, monks, if that monk had suffused the four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts, in that case, monks, that monk would not have been bitten by a snake and died. Who acts: snake. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tre
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 154

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For, monks, if that monk had suffused the four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts, in that case, monks, that monk would not have been bitten by a snake and died.

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**Who acts:** snake · **What happens:** suffuse, not bite, die · **To what, where:** monk

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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 (snake), 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:pg74064:11:165
# text = For, monks, if that monk had suffused the four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts, in that case, monks, that monk would not have been bitten by a snake and died.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	suffused	suffuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffuse** | past · perfect · passive |  | that monk |  |  |  | for monks; the four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts and that case and monks *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bite** | would · perfect · passive | a snake | that monk |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **die** | past | a snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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