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title: On a certain occasion the Exalted One admonished a company of monks… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: On a certain occasion the Exalted One admonished a company of monks to show proper respect for their elders. Who acts: Exalted One. 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 71

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On a certain occasion the Exalted One admonished a company of monks to show proper respect for their elders.

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**Who acts:** Exalted One · **What happens:** exalt, admonish, show · **To what, where:** company, proper respect

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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 (Exalted One), 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:pg74064:12:75
# text = On a certain occasion the Exalted One admonished a company of monks to show proper respect for their elders.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	One	One	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	admonished	admonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **admonish** | past | the Exalted One | a company of monks |  |  |  | on a certain occasion | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent company=Recipient on occasion=Topic |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | the Exalted One *not said here* | proper respect |  |  |  | for Partridge's elders | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |

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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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