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title: The tree in the background is the Sirīsa-tree, _Acacia Sirisa_, more… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The tree in the background is the Sirīsa-tree, _Acacia Sirisa_, more properly, _Albizzia Lebbek_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Kakusandha. Who acts: tree. 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 121

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The tree in the background is the Sirīsa-tree, \_Acacia Sirisa\_, more properly, \_Albizzia Lebbek\_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Kakusandha.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Sirīsa 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: who acts (tree), 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:pg74064:2:125
# text = The tree in the background is the Sirīsa-tree, _Acacia Sirisa_, more properly, _Albizzia Lebbek_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Kakusandha.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Sirīsa	Sirīsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Acacia	Acacia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	Sirisa	Sirisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Albizzia	Albizzia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	Lebbek	Lebbek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Bo	Bo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Kakusandha	Kakusandha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	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 | **is a** | present | the tree in the background | the Sirīsa tree |  |  |  | Acacia *appos*; properly *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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