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title: For example, in the story of _Brahmadatta and the prince_ (6), we re… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, in the story of _Brahmadatta and the prince_ (6), we read that a high-minded prince generously forgave the murderer of his father and mother, returning good for evil and love for hatred. Who acts: we, minded prince. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Open
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 28

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For example, in the story of \_Brahmadatta and the prince\_ (6), we read that a high-minded prince generously forgave the murderer of his father and mother, returning good for evil and love for hatred.

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**Who acts:** we, minded prince · **What happens:** read, forgive, return · **To what, where:** murderer

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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 (we, minded prince), 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:pg74064:2:30
# text = For example, in the story of _Brahmadatta and the prince_ (6), we read that a high-minded prince generously forgave the murderer of his father and mother, returning good for evil and love for hatred.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	generously	generously	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	murderer	murderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | we |  |  |  |  | for example in the story of Brahmadatta and the prince | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **forgive** | past | a minded prince | the murderer of Brahmadatta's father and mother |  |  |  | generously *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murderer=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | gerund | a minded prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for evil for hatred and love; good *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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