--- title: When the Teacher had thus extolled the practice of honoring the olde… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: When the Teacher had thus extolled the practice of honoring the oldest, he joined the connection and identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the elephant was one of my disciples, the monkey was another, but the wise partridge was I myself.” Who acts: Teacher, practice, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/134/) [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/) / 134 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 134 When the Teacher had thus extolled the practice of honoring the oldest, he joined the connection and identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the elephant was one of my disciples, the monkey was another, but the wise partridge was I myself.” **Who acts:** Teacher, practice, Birth story, elephant, wise partridge · **What happens:** extol, honor, join, identify, follow, be · **To what, where:** practice, oldest, connection, personages, Birth story, one 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, practice, Birth story, elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:12:139 # text = When the Teacher had thus extolled the practice of honoring the oldest, he joined the connection and identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the elephant was one of my disciples, the monkey was another, but the wise partridge was I myself.” 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 extolled extol VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 honoring honor VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 connection connection NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 identified identify VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 personages personage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 Birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 30 “ " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 At at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 disciples disciple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 partridge partridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 51 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 52 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **extol** | past · perfect | the Teacher | the practice | | | | thus *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practice=Theme | | 2 | **honor** | gerund | the practice *not said here* | the oldest | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Theme | | 3 | **join** | past | Teacher | the connection | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient | | 4 | **identify** | past | Teacher *not said here* | the personages | | the Birth story | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme | | 5 | **follow** | present | the Birth story *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the elephant | one | | | | of my disciples | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the wise partridge | the prerogative *= prerogative* | | | | I *nsubj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/135/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/)