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title: It were indeed well were the Exalted One, as it were making the full… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: It were indeed well were the Exalted One, as it were making the full moon rise in the heavens, to make this fact clear to us.” Who acts: fact. 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 4

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It were indeed well were the Exalted One, as it were making the full moon rise in the heavens, to make this fact clear to us.”

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**Who acts:** fact · **What happens:** exalt, make, clear · **To what, where:** fact, full moon rise, heavens, us

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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 (fact), 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:pg74064:15:4
# text = It were indeed well were the Exalted One, as it were making the full moon rise in the heavens, to make this fact clear to us.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exalt** | past · passive |  | fact |  |  |  | One *obj*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · progressive | fact | the full moon rise |  | the heavens |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rise=Product |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | this fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **clear** | infinitive | this fact *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |

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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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