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title: For one day the Teacher addressed the monks: “Walk, monks, in lawful… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For one day the Teacher addressed the monks: “Walk, monks, in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers.” 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 6

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For one day the Teacher addressed the monks: “Walk, monks, in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers.”

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**Who acts:** Teacher · **What happens:** address, walk · **To what, where:** monks, lawful ground

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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:pg74064:13:7
# text = For one day the Teacher addressed the monks: “Walk, monks, in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	lawful	lawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | past | the Teacher |  | the monks |  | day |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monk=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Teacher *not said here* | monks |  | lawful ground |  | the region of the fathers *parataxis* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory |

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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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