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title: The attempt to introduce the Future Buddha into the stories is not a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The attempt to introduce the Future Buddha into the stories is not always carried out in a way to satisfy or convince the reader. 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 37

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The attempt to introduce the Future Buddha into the stories is not always carried out in a way to satisfy or convince the reader.

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**What happens:** introduce, not carry out, satisfy, convince · **To what, where:** Future Buddha, stories, attempt, way, reader

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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:pg74064:2:39
# text = The attempt to introduce the Future Buddha into the stories is not always carried out in a way to satisfy or convince the reader.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	introduce	introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	convince	convince	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | to-infinitive |  | the Future Buddha |  | the stories |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **carry out** | present · passive |  | the attempt |  | a way |  | always *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **satisfy** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **convince** | infinitive |  | the reader |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reader=Experiencer |

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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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