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title: From that time on they regularly accompanied the merchant to the mon… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: From that time on they regularly accompanied the merchant to the monastery with offerings, listened to the Doctrine, gave alms, kept the Precepts, observed Fast-day. Who acts: heretics. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 152

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From that time on they regularly accompanied the merchant to the monastery with offerings, listened to the Doctrine, gave alms, kept the Precepts, observed Fast-day.

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**Who acts:** heretics · **What happens:** accompany, listen, give, keep, observe · **To what, where:** merchant, monastery, alms, Precepts

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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 (heretics), 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:pg74064:14:161
# text = From that time on they regularly accompanied the merchant to the monastery with offerings, listened to the Doctrine, gave alms, kept the Precepts, observed Fast-day.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Doctrine	Doctrine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Precepts	Precept	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
29	Fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past | heretics *= heretic* | the merchant |  | the monastery with offerings | time | regularly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme to monastery=Destination |
| 2 | **listen** | participle |  | the monastery with offerings *not said here* |  |  |  | to the Doctrine | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to doctrine=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | heretics *= heretic* *not said here* | alms |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | past | heretics *= heretic* *not said here* | the Precepts |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=Theme |
| 5 | **observe** | participle |  | the Precepts *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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