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title: As for the Future Buddha, he waited for a month and a half from the… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 71

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As for the Future Buddha, he waited for a month and a half from the day when the foolish caravan-leader set out, and then set out from the city with five hundred carts.

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**Who acts:** Buddha, foolish caravan leader · **What happens:** wait, set out · **To what, where:** city

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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, foolish caravan leader), 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:pg74064:15:71
# text = As for the Future Buddha, he waited for a month and a half from the day when the foolish caravan-leader set out, and then set out from the city with five hundred carts.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	compound	_	_
36	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | Buddha |  |  |  | day; month | as the Future Buddha | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | participle | the foolish caravan leader |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | infinitive | Buddha *not said here* |  |  | the city | then | with hundred carts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial\_Location |

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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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