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description: But in a later form of the story, _Jātaka_ 371, we are expressly told that the generous prince was none other than the Future Buddha. Who acts: generous prince. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 30

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But in a later form of the story, \_Jātaka\_ 371, we are expressly told that the generous prince was none other than the Future Buddha.

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**Who acts:** generous prince · **What happens:** tell, be, form · **To what, where:** we, later form, none, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (generous 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:pg74064:2:32
# text = But in a later form of the story, _Jātaka_ 371, we are expressly told that the generous prince was none other than the Future Buddha.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Jātaka	Jātaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
13	371	371	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	expressly	expressly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	iobj	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | we |  | a later form of the story |  | expressly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient none=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the generous prince | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | the story |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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