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title: Having so said, in order to point out what more must yet be done, he… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Having so said, in order to point out what more must yet be done, he recited this stanza: Who acts: Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

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Having so said, in order to point out what more must yet be done, he recited this stanza:

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** have, say, point out, do, recite · **To what, where:** stanza · **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 (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:pg74064:12:56
# text = Having so said, in order to point out what more must yet be done, he recited this stanza:
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	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	1	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	recited	recite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **point out** | to-infinitive | Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | must · passive | Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **recite** | past | Buddha | this stanza |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stanza=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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