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title: With this stanza did the Future Buddha preach the Doctrine, praising… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With this stanza did the Future Buddha preach the Doctrine, praising the man of wisdom. Who acts: Future Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 104

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With this stanza did the Future Buddha preach the Doctrine, praising the man of wisdom.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha · **What happens:** do, preach, praise · **To what, where:** Doctrine, man

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Future 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:pg74064:13:109
# text = With this stanza did the Future Buddha preach the Doctrine, praising the man of wisdom.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	preach	preach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Doctrine	Doctrine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	praising	praise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with this stanza | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **preach** *speech: other* | present | the Future Buddha | the Doctrine |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctrine=Topic |
| 3 | **praise** | gerund | the Future Buddha *not said here* | the man of wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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