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title: When he was old enough to walk and could run hither and thither, ano… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was old enough to walk and could run hither and thither, another being of merit also received a new existence as his brother. Who acts: Brahmadatta, merit. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 97

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When he was old enough to walk and could run hither and thither, another being of merit also received a new existence as his brother.

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta, merit · **What happens:** be, walk, run, receive · **To what, where:** new existence

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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 (Brahmadatta, merit), 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:pg74064:11:104
# text = When he was old enough to walk and could run hither and thither, another being of merit also received a new existence as his brother.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Brahmadatta |  |  |  |  | enough, old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | Brahmadatta *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | could | Brahmadatta *not said here* |  |  | thither |  | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of another merit | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** | past | another merit | a new existence |  |  |  | as Brahmadatta's brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=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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