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title: The Teacher, surrounded by the Congregation of Monks, entered that v… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The Teacher, surrounded by the Congregation of Monks, entered that village for alms. Who acts: Teacher. 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 50

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The Teacher, surrounded by the Congregation of Monks, entered that village for alms.

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**Who acts:** Teacher · **What happens:** surround, enter · **To what, where:** Teacher

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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:pg74064:13:54
# text = The Teacher, surrounded by the Congregation of Monks, entered that village for alms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | participle |  | the Teacher *not said here* |  |  |  | the Congregation of Monks *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | past | the Teacher |  |  |  |  | for alms; village *advcl* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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