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title: In agitation of heart over their death, both brothers adopted the li… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In agitation of heart over their death, both brothers adopted the life of ascetics, and building leaf-huts on the bank of the Ganges, took up their residence there. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and t
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 99

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In agitation of heart over their death, both brothers adopted the life of ascetics, and building leaf-huts on the bank of the Ganges, took up their residence there.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** adopt, build, take up, die · **To what, where:** life, agitation, leaf huts, bank, residence

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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 (brothers), 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:pg74064:11:106
# text = In agitation of heart over their death, both brothers adopted the life of ascetics, and building leaf-huts on the bank of the Ganges, took up their residence there.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	agitation	agitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ascetics	ascetic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | past | both brothers | the life of ascetics |  | agitation of heart over brothers's death |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | gerund | both brothers *not said here* | leaf huts |  | the bank of the Ganges |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hut=Theme on bank=Source |
| 3 | **take up** | past | both brothers *not said here* | brothers's residence |  | there |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residence=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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