---
title: Why is it that you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is it that you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, do not live in respect and deference for each other?” Who acts: taking. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/131/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/) / 131

# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 131

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Why is it that you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, do not live in respect and deference for each other?”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** taking · **What happens:** be, retire, teach, not live · **To what, where:** world, respect

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:12:136
# text = Why is it that you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, do not live in respect and deference for each other?”
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Discipline	discipline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	deference	deference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nmod	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | taking |  |  |  |  | that you | tree rules |
| 2 | **retire** | present · perfect |  |  |  | the world |  | under a Doctrine and Discipline; who *nsubj* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from world=Source |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **live** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  | respect for each and deference |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in respect=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/130/)
- next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/132/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/)