--- title: There a certain householder invited the Teacher, provided seats in h… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: There a certain householder invited the Teacher, provided seats in his garden, gave alms to the Congregation of Monks presided over by the Buddha, and said: “Reverend Sirs, walk about in this garden according to your pleasure.” Who acts: certain householder, Reverend Sirs, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain householder, Reverend Sirs, your), 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:pg74064:13:123 # text = There a certain householder invited the Teacher, provided seats in his garden, gave alms to the Congregation of Monks presided over by the Buddha, and said: “Reverend Sirs, walk about in this garden according to your pleasure.” 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 householder householder NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Teacher Teacher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 provided provide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 alms alm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Congregation congregation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Monks monk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 presided preside VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 over over ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Buddha Buddha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Reverend reverend NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Sirs sir NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 case _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | past | a certain householder | | the Teacher | there | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 2 | **provide** | past | a certain householder *not said here* | seats | | Teacher's garden | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition seat=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | a certain householder *not said here* | alms | the Congregation of Monks | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Theme to congregation=Recipient | | 4 | **preside over** | participle | | Monks *not said here* | | | | by the Buddha; over *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent by buddha=Eventuality | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a certain householder *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive | Reverend Sirs | | | this garden | | accord your pleasure; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | | 7 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **please** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/13/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/13/116/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/13/)