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title: Accordingly, monks, the partridge prevailed upon the monkey and the… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, monks, the partridge prevailed upon the monkey and the elephant to take upon themselves the Five Precepts, and himself also took upon himself the Five Precepts and walked therein. Who acts: monks, monk. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12,
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 90

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Accordingly, monks, the partridge prevailed upon the monkey and the elephant to take upon themselves the Five Precepts, and himself also took upon himself the Five Precepts and walked therein.

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**Who acts:** monks, monk · **What happens:** prevail, take, walk · **To what, where:** Five Precepts

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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 (monks, monk), 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:pg74064:12:94
# text = Accordingly, monks, the partridge prevailed upon the monkey and the elephant to take upon themselves the Five Precepts, and himself also took upon himself the Five Precepts and walked therein.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	partridge	partridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	Precepts	Precept	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	nsubj	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	Precepts	Precept	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | past | monks and the partridge |  |  |  |  | upon the monkey and the elephant; accordingly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon monkey=Location |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | monks and the partridge *not said here* |  | the Five Precepts |  |  | upon Partridge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument precept=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | past | monk |  | the Five Precepts |  |  | upon monk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument precept=Destination |
| 4 | **walk** | past | monk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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