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title: When the Teacher had thus related this parable, he assumed the prero… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Teacher had thus related this parable, he assumed the prerogative of One Supremely Enlightened and uttered the following stanza: Who acts: Teacher, prerogative. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 132

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When the Teacher had thus related this parable, he assumed the prerogative of One Supremely Enlightened and uttered the following stanza:

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**Who acts:** Teacher, prerogative · **What happens:** relate, assume, enlighten, utter, follow · **To what, where:** parable, prerogative, One, stanza

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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 (Teacher, prerogative), 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:pg74064:12:137
# text = When the Teacher had thus related this parable, he assumed the prerogative of One Supremely Enlightened and uttered the following stanza:
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prerogative	prerogative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	Supremely	supremely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	Enlightened	enlighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
22	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past · perfect | the Teacher | this parable |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme |
| 2 | **assume** | past | Teacher | the prerogative |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prerogative=Theme |
| 3 | **enlighten** | participle · passive | the prerogative *not said here* | One |  |  |  | supremely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the prerogative *not said here* | the stanza |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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