--- title: Then the Exalted One aroused the attention of the merchant by saying… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Exalted One aroused the attention of the merchant by saying: “I, O householder, fulfilled the Ten Perfections during a period of time which cannot be measured, and penetrated Omniscience, for the sole purpose of rending asunder the doubt of the world. Who acts: Exalted One, merchant, sole p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/) / 5 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 5 Then the Exalted One aroused the attention of the merchant by saying: “I, O householder, fulfilled the Ten Perfections during a period of time which cannot be measured, and penetrated Omniscience, for the sole purpose of rending asunder the doubt of the world. **Who acts:** Exalted One, merchant, sole purpose · **What happens:** exalt, arouse, say, fulfil, not measure, penetrate · **To what, where:** attention, Ten Perfections, time, Omniscience, asunder, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Exalted One, merchant, sole purpose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:15:5 # text = Then the Exalted One aroused the attention of the merchant by saying: “I, O householder, fulfilled the Ten Perfections during a period of time which cannot be measured, and penetrated Omniscience, for the sole purpose of rending asunder the doubt of the world. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Exalted exalt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 One One PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 aroused arouse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 O o INTJ UH _ 18 discourse _ _ 18 householder householder NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 fulfilled fulfil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 Perfections perfection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 during during ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 penetrated penetrate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 37 Omniscience omniscience NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 sole sole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 of of SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 44 rending rend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 acl _ _ 45 asunder asunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exalt** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **arouse** | past | the Exalted One | the attention of the merchant | | | then | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Exalted One *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | past | merchant | the Ten Perfections | | | during a period of time | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **measure** *in a quote* | can · passive | | time | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 6 | **penetrate** *in a quote* | past | merchant *not said here* | Omniscience | | | | for the sole purpose | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omniscience=Patient | | 7 | **rend** *in a quote* | gerund | the sole purpose *not said here* | asunder | | | | the doubt of the world *obj* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient doubt=Result | | 8 | **attend** | | the merchant | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | | 9 | **doubt** *in a quote* | | | the world | | | | | nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/6/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/)