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title: If, monks, you walk in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: If, monks, you walk in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers, the Evil One will not obtain entrance, the Evil One will not obtain lodgment.” Who acts: monks, Evil One. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 170

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If, monks, you walk in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers, the Evil One will not obtain entrance, the Evil One will not obtain lodgment.”

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**Who acts:** monks, Evil One · **What happens:** walk, not obtain · **To what, where:** lawful ground, entrance, lodgment

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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 (monks, Evil One), 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:pg74064:12:178
# text = If, monks, you walk in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers, the Evil One will not obtain entrance, the Evil One will not obtain lodgment.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	lawful	lawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
24	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	lodgment	lodgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | monks |  |  | lawful ground |  | in the region of the fathers; you *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **obtain** | future | the Evil One | entrance |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset entrance=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **obtain** | future | the Evil One | lodgment |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lodgment=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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