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title: Now the Exalted One departed from Sāvatthi and went back again to Rā… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Exalted One departed from Sāvatthi and went back again to Rājagaha. 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 153

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Now the Exalted One departed from Sāvatthi and went back again to Rājagaha.

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**What happens:** exalt, depart, go back · **To what, where:** One, Sāvatthi, Rājagaha

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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: 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:pg74064:14:162
# text = Now the Exalted One departed from Sāvatthi and went back again to Rājagaha.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sāvatthi	Sāvatthi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Rājagaha	Rājagaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exalt** | participle |  | One |  |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **depart** | participle |  |  |  | Sāvatthi |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sāvatthi=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go back** | past |  |  | Rājagaha |  | again |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to rājagaha=Result |

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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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