--- title: Having so said, in order to point out that living beings are finite,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Having so said, in order to point out that living beings are finite, he continued: “Finite are creeping things,--snakes, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, lizards, rats and mice!” Who acts: Buddha, living beings, Finite. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddha, living beings, Finite), 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:pg74064:12:52 # text = Having so said, in order to point out that living beings are finite, he continued: “Finite are creeping things,--snakes, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, lizards, rats and mice!” 1 Having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 8 mark _ _ 6 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 fixed _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 point point VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 beings being NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 finite finite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Finite finite NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 centipedes centipede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | Buddha *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | Buddha *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **point out** | to-infinitive | Buddha *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | living beings | | | | | finite *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **continue** | past | Buddha | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **creep** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Finite | things | | | | snakes and scorpions and centipedes and spiders and lizards and rats and mice *obj* | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/52/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/)