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title: Likewise did those disciples of heretical teachers salute the Teache… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Likewise did those disciples of heretical teachers salute the Teacher and sit down, close beside the merchant. Who acts: disciples. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 148

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Likewise did those disciples of heretical teachers salute the Teacher and sit down, close beside the merchant.

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**Who acts:** disciples · **What happens:** be, salute, sit down, close · **To what, where:** Teacher, merchant

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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 (disciples), 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:pg74064:14:157
# text = Likewise did those disciples of heretical teachers salute the Teacher and sit down, close beside the merchant.
1	Likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	disciples	disciple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	heretical	heretical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	salute	salute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | likewise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **salute** | present | that disciples of heretical teachers | the Teacher |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Topic |
| 3 | **sit down** | present | that disciples of heretical teachers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **close** | infinitive | that disciples of heretical teachers *not said here* |  |  | the merchant |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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