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title: Now when the ogre had gone, the men asked the Future Buddha: “Noble… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when the ogre had gone, the men asked the Future Buddha: “Noble sir, these men said: ‘Do you see that dark green streak of woods? Who acts: ogre, men, you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 87

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Now when the ogre had gone, the men asked the Future Buddha: “Noble sir, these men said: ‘Do you see that dark green streak of woods?

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**Who acts:** ogre, men, you · **What happens:** go, ask, say, see · **To what, where:** Future Buddha, Noble sir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ogre, men, you), 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:pg74064:15:87
# text = Now when the ogre had gone, the men asked the Future Buddha: “Noble sir, these men said: ‘Do you see that dark green streak of woods?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Buddha	buddha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the ogre |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the men | the Future Buddha |  |  | now |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent buddha=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | this men | Noble sir |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | dark green streak of woods *ccomp* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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