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title: When the Future Buddha had thus pointed out that the virtues of the… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Future Buddha had thus pointed out that the virtues of the Three Jewels are infinite, he said: “Meditate on the virtues of these Three Jewels.” Who acts: virtues, Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 50

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When the Future Buddha had thus pointed out that the virtues of the Three Jewels are infinite, he said: “Meditate on the virtues of these Three Jewels.”

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**Who acts:** virtues, Buddha · **What happens:** point out, be, say, meditate · **To what, where:** Future Buddha · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (virtues, 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:pg74064:12:51
# text = When the Future Buddha had thus pointed out that the virtues of the Three Jewels are infinite, he said: “Meditate on the virtues of these Three Jewels.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	Jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Meditate	meditate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	Jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Future Buddha |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the virtues of the Three Jewels |  |  |  |  | infinite *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **meditate** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on the virtues of this Three Jewels | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on virtue=Topic |

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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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