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description: _ This parable was related by the Teacher while he was journeying from place to place in the country of the Magadhas, in a certain little village, with reference to some foolish villagers. Who acts: Teacher. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13, with it
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 43

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\_ This parable was related by the Teacher while he was journeying from place to place in the country of the Magadhas, in a certain little village, with reference to some foolish villagers.

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**Who acts:** Teacher · **What happens:** relate, journey · **To what, where:** parable, place

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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 (Teacher), 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:pg74064:13:47
# text = _ This parable was related by the Teacher while he was journeying from place to place in the country of the Magadhas, in a certain little village, with reference to some foolish villagers.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Magadhas	Magadhas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
34	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past · passive | the Teacher | this parable |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **journey** | past · progressive | Teacher |  |  | place |  | to place in the country of the Magadhas; in a certain little village and reference; to some foolish villagers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |

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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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