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title: Thus, as an honest dicer (23 _b_), he violates Buddhist teaching by… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, as an honest dicer (23 _b_), he violates Buddhist teaching by administering deadly poison to his companion, a dishonest dicer. Who acts: attempt, Buddhist teaching. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 38

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Thus, as an honest dicer (23 \_b\_), he violates Buddhist teaching by administering deadly poison to his companion, a dishonest dicer.

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**Who acts:** attempt, Buddhist teaching · **What happens:** violate, administer · **To what, where:** Buddhist teaching, deadly poison, companion

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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 (attempt, Buddhist teaching), 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:pg74064:2:40
# text = Thus, as an honest dicer (23 _b_), he violates Buddhist teaching by administering deadly poison to his companion, a dishonest dicer.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dicer	dicer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
9	_	_	SYM	SYM	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	b	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	violates	violate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	administering	administer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dicer	dicer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **violate** | present | attempt | Buddhist teaching and a dishonest dicer |  |  |  | as a honest dicer; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **administer** | gerund | Buddhist teaching and a dishonest dicer *not said here* | deadly poison | attempt's companion |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent poison=Theme to companion=Recipient |

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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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