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title: Specifically, a monk belonging to some religious order other than th… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Specifically, a monk belonging to some religious order other than the order of monks founded by Gotama Buddha. Who acts: monk. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 25

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Specifically, a monk belonging to some religious order other than the order of monks founded by Gotama Buddha.

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**Who acts:** monk · **What happens:** belong, found, order · **To what, where:** monks

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk), 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:pg74064:17:26
# text = Specifically, a monk belonging to some religious order other than the order of monks founded by Gotama Buddha.
1	Specifically	specifically	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Gotama	Gotama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | gerund | a monk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to some religious order | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **found** | participle |  | monks *not said here* |  |  |  | Gotama Buddha *obl:agent* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **order** |  |  | monks |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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