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title: As for the Future Buddha, through the cultivation of the Exalted Sta… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the Future Buddha, through the cultivation of the Exalted States, he attained the goal of the World of Brahmā. 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 64

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As for the Future Buddha, through the cultivation of the Exalted States, he attained the goal of the World of Brahmā.

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** exalt, attain, cultivate · **To what, where:** goal, Exalted States

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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:pg74064:12:65
# text = As for the Future Buddha, through the cultivation of the Exalted States, he attained the goal of the World of Brahmā.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	attained	attain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Brahmā	Brahmā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exalt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **attain** | past | Buddha | the goal of the World of Brahmā |  |  |  | as the Future Buddha | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme |
| 3 | **cultivate** |  |  | the Exalted States |  |  |  |  | nom cultivation «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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