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title: The illustration to Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, represents the F… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The illustration to Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, represents the Future Buddha in the person of Prince Five-weapons casting a spear at the giant ogre Sticky-hair. Who acts: illustration, Five weapons. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its depe
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 124

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The illustration to Story 9, \_A Buddhist Tar-baby\_, represents the Future Buddha in the person of Prince Five-weapons casting a spear at the giant ogre Sticky-hair.

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**Who acts:** illustration, Five weapons · **What happens:** represent, cast · **To what, where:** Future Buddha, spear, giant ogre

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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 (illustration, Five weapons), 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:pg74064:2:128
# text = The illustration to Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, represents the Future Buddha in the person of Prince Five-weapons casting a spear at the giant ogre Sticky-hair.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	Tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	Sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present | the illustration to Story and a Buddhist baby \_ | the Future Buddha |  |  |  | in the person of Prince and Five weapons | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot buddha=Theme in person=Attribute |
| 2 | **cast** | gerund | Five weapons *not said here* | a spear |  | the giant ogre  Sticky hair |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at ogre=Destination |

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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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