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title: Sometimes he went from east to west, sometimes from west to east. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes he went from east to west, sometimes from west to east. Who acts: Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 11

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Sometimes he went from east to west, sometimes from west to east.

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** east

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. 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:pg74064:15:11
# text = Sometimes he went from east to west, sometimes from west to east.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	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 | **go** | past | Buddha |  |  | east |  | to west; from west to east; sometimes *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from east=Initial\_Location to west=Destination |

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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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