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title: _ This stanza was recited by the Teacher while in residence at Jetav… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: _ This stanza was recited by the Teacher while in residence at Jetavana to explain his own meaning in the Parable of the Bird. Who acts: Teacher, Jetavana. 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 5

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\_ This stanza was recited by the Teacher while in residence at Jetavana to explain his own meaning in the Parable of the Bird.

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**Who acts:** Teacher, Jetavana · **What happens:** recite, explain, mean · **To what, where:** stanza, own meaning, Parable

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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, Jetavana), 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:pg74064:13:6
# text = _ This stanza was recited by the Teacher while in residence at Jetavana to explain his own meaning in the Parable of the Bird.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	stanza	stanza	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	recited	recite	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	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jetavana	Jetavana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Parable	Parable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recite** | past · passive | the Teacher | this stanza |  |  |  | residence at Jetavana *advcl* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Teacher *not said here* | Jetavana's own meaning |  | the Parable of the Bird |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** |  | Jetavana |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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