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title: Then the older ascetic addressed the younger ascetic with a stanza: — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the older ascetic addressed the younger ascetic with a stanza: Who acts: older ascetic. 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 83

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Then the older ascetic addressed the younger ascetic with a stanza:

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**Who acts:** older ascetic · **What happens:** address · **To what, where:** younger ascetic

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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 (older ascetic), 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:pg74064:11:89
# text = Then the older ascetic addressed the younger ascetic with a stanza:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | past | the older ascetic | the younger ascetic |  |  | then | with a stanza | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ascetic=Destination with stanza=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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