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title: At that time the Future Buddha took a valuable lot of goods from Ben… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time the Future Buddha took a valuable lot of goods from Benāres, filled five hundred carts, made preparations for the journey, and was all ready to start. Who acts: Future Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree a
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 13

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At that time the Future Buddha took a valuable lot of goods from Benāres, filled five hundred carts, made preparations for the journey, and was all ready to start.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha · **What happens:** take, fill, make, be, start · **To what, where:** valuable lot, Benāres, hundred carts, preparations

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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 (Future 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:pg74064:15:13
# text = At that time the Future Buddha took a valuable lot of goods from Benāres, filled five hundred carts, made preparations for the journey, and was all ready to start.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Benāres	Benāres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Future Buddha | a valuable lot of goods |  | Benāres | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent lot=Theme from benāres=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fill** | past | the Future Buddha *not said here* | hundred carts |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cart=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | the Future Buddha *not said here* | preparations |  |  |  | for the journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for journey=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | all, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **start** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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