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title: But friendliness and compassion and generosity towards all living be… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: But friendliness and compassion and generosity towards all living beings yield abundant fruit, both in this world and in the next. Who acts: friendliness. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 34

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But friendliness and compassion and generosity towards all living beings yield abundant fruit, both in this world and in the next.

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**Who acts:** friendliness · **What happens:** live, yield · **To what, where:** abundant fruit, world

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friendliness), 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:pg74064:16:36
# text = But friendliness and compassion and generosity towards all living beings yield abundant fruit, both in this world and in the next.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	friendliness	friendliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
11	yield	yield	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc:preconj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **yield** | present | friendliness towards all living beings and compassion and generosity | abundant fruit |  | this world |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |

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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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