--- title: Said the Teacher: “Verily, householder, not only in her present stat… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Said the Teacher: “Verily, householder, not only in her present state of existence has this girl, with the thought in her mind, ‘I’ll kill flies!’ caused the death of her mother; in a previous state of existence also she caused the death of her mother in the very same way.” Who acts: Teacher, househ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/13/105/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/13/) / 105 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 105 Said the Teacher: “Verily, householder, not only in her present state of existence has this girl, with the thought in her mind, ‘I’ll kill flies!’ caused the death of her mother; in a previous state of existence also she caused the death of her mother in the very same way.” **Who acts:** Teacher, householder, Girl, mother · **What happens:** say, have, kill, cause, mind, die · **To what, where:** girl, flies, death, previous state · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Teacher, householder, Girl, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:13:110 # text = Said the Teacher: “Verily, householder, not only in her present state of existence has this girl, with the thought in her mind, ‘I’ll kill flies!’ caused the death of her mother; in a previous state of existence also she caused the death of her mother in the very same way.” 1 Said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Verily verily ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 householder householder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 19 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 33 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 36 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 previous previous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 49 also also ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 50 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 59 very very ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 60 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | householder | this girl and the thought in householder's mind | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | | 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | future | the Teacher *= teacher* | flies | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cause** *in a quote* | past | the Teacher *= teacher* *not said here* | the death of householder's mother | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | | 5 | **cause** *in a quote* | past | Girl | the death of Girl's mother | | a previous state of existence | | in the same way | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | | 6 | **mind** *in a quote* | | householder | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **die** *in a quote* | | householder's mother | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 8 | **die** *in a quote* | | Girl's mother | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/13/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/13/106/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/13/)