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title: Men versed in the Law who honor the aged Have praise even in this li… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Men versed in the Law who honor the aged Have praise even in this life And in the next life are in bliss. Who acts: Men. 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 94

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Men versed in the Law who honor the aged Have praise even in this life And in the next life are in bliss.

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**Who acts:** Men · **What happens:** verse, honor, be · **To what, where:** Men, Law, aged Have praise, life, bliss

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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 (Men), 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:pg74064:12:98
# text = Men versed in the Law who honor the aged Have praise even in this life And in the next life are in bliss.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
2	versed	verse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	honor	honor	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Have	Have	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **verse** | participle |  | Men *not said here* |  | the Law |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **honor** | present | Men | the aged Have praise |  | this life and the next life |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Men |  |  | bliss |  |  | tree rules |

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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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