--- title: When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the persona… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the leader of the monkeys was the youth who spoiled the garden, but the wise man was I myself.” Who acts: Teacher, Birth story, leader, youth. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/) / 40 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 40 When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the leader of the monkeys was the youth who spoiled the garden, but the wise man was I myself.” **Who acts:** Teacher, Birth story, leader, youth, wise man · **What happens:** relate, identify, follow, be, spoil · **To what, where:** parable, personages, Birth story, youth, garden, Future Buddha 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 (Teacher, Birth story, leader, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:14:41 # text = When the Teacher had related this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the leader of the monkeys was the youth who spoiled the garden, but the wise man was I myself.” 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Teacher Teacher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 related relate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 parable parable NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 identified identify VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 personages personage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 Birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 At at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 spoiled spoil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **relate** | past · perfect | the Teacher | this parable | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme | | 2 | **identify** | past | Teacher | the personages | | the Birth story | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | present | the Birth story *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the leader of the monkeys | the youth | | | time | | tree rules | | 5 | **spoil** *in a quote* | past | the youth | the garden | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the wise man | the Future Buddha *= buddha* | | | | I *nsubj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/)