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title: I permit you, monks, to suffuse these four royal families of snakes… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: I permit you, monks, to suffuse these four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts; for self-preservation, for self-defense, to effect Protection of Self. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 162

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I permit you, monks, to suffuse these four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts; for self-preservation, for self-defense, to effect Protection of Self.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** permit, suffuse, protect · **To what, where:** you, four royal families, Self

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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 (I), 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:pg74064:11:173
# text = I permit you, monks, to suffuse these four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts; for self-preservation, for self-defense, to effect Protection of Self.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	permit	permit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	suffuse	suffuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	defense	defense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | present | I | you |  |  |  | monks *obl* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **suffuse** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts |  |  |  | for self preservation and self defense; effect Protection of Self *obl* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Destination |
| 3 | **protect** |  |  | Self |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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