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title: By supernatural power, in the region of Himavat, at a bend in the Ga… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: By supernatural power, in the region of Himavat, at a bend in the Ganges, he created a hermitage, and there he resided, surrounded by a company of ascetics, diverting himself with the diversions of the Trances. Who acts: Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Open
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 27

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By supernatural power, in the region of Himavat, at a bend in the Ganges, he created a hermitage, and there he resided, surrounded by a company of ascetics, diverting himself with the diversions of the Trances.

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** create, reside, surround, divert · **To what, where:** hermitage, Buddha, Trances

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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 (Buddha), 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:pg74064:12:28
# text = By supernatural power, in the region of Himavat, at a bend in the Ganges, he created a hermitage, and there he resided, surrounded by a company of ascetics, diverting himself with the diversions of the Trances.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Himavat	Himavat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	resided	reside	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:agent	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	ascetics	ascetic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	diverting	divert	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	diversions	diversion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Trances	trance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | past | Buddha | a hermitage |  |  |  | by supernatural power and a bend in the Ganges | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermitage=Result |
| 2 | **reside** | past | Buddha |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | a company of ascetics *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **divert** | gerund | Buddha *not said here* | Buddha |  |  |  | with the diversions of the Trances | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 5 | **divert** |  |  | the Trances |  |  |  |  | nom diversion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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