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title: Finally he admonished him: “Never do such a thing again.” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally he admonished him: “Never do such a thing again.” Who acts: Buddha. 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 87

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Finally he admonished him: “Never do such a thing again.”

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** admonish, not do · **To what, where:** story, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Buddha), 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:pg74064:14:92
# text = Finally he admonished him: “Never do such a thing again.”
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	admonished	admonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admonish** | past | Buddha | story |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | such thing |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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