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title: I here do homage to the Exalted One And to the Seven Supreme Buddhas! — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: I here do homage to the Exalted One And to the Seven Supreme Buddhas! Who acts: I. 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 59

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I here do homage to the Exalted One And to the Seven Supreme Buddhas!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, exalt · **To what, where:** homage, Exalted One

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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 (I), 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:pg74064:12:60
# text = I here do homage to the Exalted One And to the Seven Supreme Buddhas!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	One	One	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Seven	Seven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Buddhas	Buddhas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | I | homage | the Exalted One and the Seven Supreme Buddhas | here |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality |
| 2 | **exalt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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