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title: Said he: “In former times, monks, even animals reflected: ‘But it is… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 98

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Said he: “In former times, monks, even animals reflected: ‘But it is not becoming in us that we should live without respect or deference for each other, having no common life.

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**Who acts:** Teacher, respect, we · **What happens:** say, reflect, not become, live, have · **To what, where:** common life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Teacher, respect, we), 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:pg74064:12:103
# text = Said he: “In former times, monks, even animals reflected: ‘But it is not becoming in us that we should live without respect or deference for each other, having no common life.
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	deference	deference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nmod	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
37	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reflect** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **become** *in a quote* | present · progressive | respect |  |  |  |  | in us *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in we=Result |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  |  | without respect for each or deference | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | respect *not said here* | no common life |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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