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title: Right middle: Sirīsa-tree, _Acacia Sirisa_, more properly, _Albizzia… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Right middle: Sirīsa-tree, _Acacia Sirisa_, more properly, _Albizzia Lebbek_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Kakusandha. 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 153

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Right middle: Sirīsa-tree, \_Acacia Sirisa\_, more properly, \_Albizzia Lebbek\_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Kakusandha.

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**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: 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:pg74064:2:157
# text = Right middle: Sirīsa-tree, _Acacia Sirisa_, more properly, _Albizzia Lebbek_, the Bo-tree of the Buddha Kakusandha.
1	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Sirīsa	Sirīsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Acacia	Acacia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	Sirisa	Sirisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Albizzia	Albizzia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	Lebbek	Lebbek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Bo	Bo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Kakusandha	Kakusandha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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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