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title: In olden times a certain monk dwelt on a slope of Himavat in a certa… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In olden times a certain monk dwelt on a slope of Himavat in a certain forest-grove. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 19

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In olden times a certain monk dwelt on a slope of Himavat in a certain forest-grove.

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**What happens:** dwell · **To what, where:** certain monk, slope

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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: 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:pg74064:11:22
# text = In olden times a certain monk dwelt on a slope of Himavat in a certain forest-grove.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Himavat	Himavat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | participle |  | a certain monk in olden times *not said here* |  | a slope of Himavat |  | in a certain forest grove | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slope=Location |

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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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