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title: The story goes that the Teacher, after keeping residence for the per… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The story goes that the Teacher, after keeping residence for the period of the rains, departed from Jetavana and journeyed from place to place in the South Mountain region. Who acts: story. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 8

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The story goes that the Teacher, after keeping residence for the period of the rains, departed from Jetavana and journeyed from place to place in the South Mountain region.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** go, keep, depart, journey · **To what, where:** residence, Jetavana, place

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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 (story), 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:pg74064:14:9
# text = The story goes that the Teacher, after keeping residence for the period of the rains, departed from Jetavana and journeyed from place to place in the South Mountain region.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
10	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Jetavana	Jetavana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | the Teacher *advcl* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund |  | residence |  |  |  | for the period of the rains | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residence=Theme |
| 3 | **depart** | participle |  |  |  | Jetavana |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from jetavana=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **journey** | past |  |  |  | place to place in the Mountain region |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory |

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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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