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title: One day a wealthy merchant, accompanied by five hundred disciples of… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a wealthy merchant, accompanied by five hundred disciples of heretical teachers, went to Jetavana monastery, saluted the Exalted One, presented offerings, and sat down. Who acts: wealthy merchant. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14, with its d
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 147

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One day a wealthy merchant, accompanied by five hundred disciples of heretical teachers, went to Jetavana monastery, saluted the Exalted One, presented offerings, and sat down.

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**Who acts:** wealthy merchant · **What happens:** accompany, go, salute, exalt, present, sit down · **To what, where:** wealthy merchant, Jetavana monastery, Exalted One presented offerings

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealthy merchant), 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:pg74064:14:156
# text = One day a wealthy merchant, accompanied by five hundred disciples of heretical teachers, went to Jetavana monastery, saluted the Exalted One, presented offerings, and sat down.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	disciples	disciple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	heretical	heretical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Jetavana	Jetavana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
24	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | participle |  | a wealthy merchant *not said here* |  |  |  | hundred disciples of heretical teachers *obl:agent* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | a wealthy merchant |  |  | Jetavana monastery | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to monastery=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **salute** | past | a wealthy merchant *not said here* | the Exalted One presented offerings |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Topic |
| 4 | **exalt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **present** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sit down** | past | a wealthy merchant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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