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title: But those who are endowed with morality, Those who delight in the tr… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: But those who are endowed with morality, Those who delight in the tranquillity of wisdom, Those who abstain and refrain from worldly delights,--the wise,-- They attain what others attain not. Who acts: Those, others. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 8

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But those who are endowed with morality, Those who delight in the tranquillity of wisdom, Those who abstain and refrain from worldly delights,--the wise,-- They attain what others attain not.

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**Who acts:** Those, others · **What happens:** endow, delight, abstain, refrain, attain, not attain · **To what, where:** those, tranquillity, worldly delights

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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 (Those, others), 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:pg74064:11:8
# text = But those who are endowed with morality, Those who delight in the tranquillity of wisdom, Those who abstain and refrain from worldly delights,--the wise,-- They attain what others attain not.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	morality	morality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	obl:agent	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	delight	delight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tranquillity	tranquillity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	conj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	abstain	abstain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	refrain	refrain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	worldly	worldly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	attain	attain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	obj	_	_
35	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	attain	attain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endow** | present · passive | Those  Those | those |  |  |  | with morality; who *nsubj* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Destination with morality=Theme |
| 2 | **delight** | present |  |  |  | the tranquillity of wisdom |  | who *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **abstain** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **refrain** | present |  |  |  | worldly delights |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent from delight=Eventuality |
| 5 | **attain** | present | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **attain** | present | others |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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