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title: But few in number are those who entertain sentiments of compassion f… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: But few in number are those who entertain sentiments of compassion for the whole world and for all the living beings that are therein.” Who acts: few, living beings. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 5

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But few in number are those who entertain sentiments of compassion for the whole world and for all the living beings that are therein.”

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**Who acts:** few, living beings · **What happens:** be, entertain · **To what, where:** those, sentiments

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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 (few, living beings), 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:pg74064:17:5
# text = But few in number are those who entertain sentiments of compassion for the whole world and for all the living beings that are therein.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	entertain	entertain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	sentiments	sentiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | few in number | those |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **entertain** | present |  | sentiments of compassion |  |  |  | for the whole world and all living beings; who *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sentiment=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | all living beings |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | tree rules |

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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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