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title: Centre over elephant: Probably the Sāl-tree, _Shorea Robusta_, the B… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Centre over elephant: Probably the Sāl-tree, _Shorea Robusta_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Vessabhu. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 105

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Centre over elephant: Probably the Sāl-tree, \_Shorea Robusta\_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Vessabhu.

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**To what, where:** Sāl tree

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74064:2:109
# text = Centre over elephant: Probably the Sāl-tree, _Shorea Robusta_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Vessabhu.
1	Centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Sāl	Sāl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Shorea	shorea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	Robusta	Robusta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Bo	Bo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Vessabhu	Vessabhu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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