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title: Some adhered to Absolute Truth, sophists to less than this. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Some adhered to Absolute Truth, sophists to less than this. Who acts: Absolute Truth. 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 126

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Some adhered to Absolute Truth, sophists to less than this.

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**Who acts:** Absolute Truth · **What happens:** adhere · **To what, where:** Some

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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 (Absolute Truth), 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:pg74064:15:126
# text = Some adhered to Absolute Truth, sophists to less than this.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	adhered	adhere	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sophists	sophist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adhere** | participle · passive | Absolute Truth | Some |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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