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title: At that time the Future Buddha also, seeking wares for himself, havi… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time the Future Buddha also, seeking wares for himself, having reached that village, was sitting in that carpenter’s hut. Who acts: Future Buddha, village. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 66

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At that time the Future Buddha also, seeking wares for himself, having reached that village, was sitting in that carpenter’s hut.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha, village · **What happens:** seek, reach, sit · **To what, where:** wares, Future Buddha, hut

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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 (Future Buddha, village), 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:pg74064:13:70
# text = At that time the Future Buddha also, seeking wares for himself, having reached that village, was sitting in that carpenter’s hut.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | gerund | the Future Buddha *not said here* | wares |  |  |  | for Buddha | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ware=Location for himself=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | the Future Buddha |  |  | time |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | village |  |  | that carpenter's hut |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location |

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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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