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title: In the case of some of the stories, the figure of the Future Buddha… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In the case of some of the stories, the figure of the Future Buddha is, so to speak, lugged in by the heels. Who acts: figure. 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 43

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In the case of some of the stories, the figure of the Future Buddha is, so to speak, lugged in by the heels.

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**Who acts:** figure · **What happens:** be, speak, lug in, figure · **To what, where:** case, Future Buddha · **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 (figure), 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:pg74064:2:45
# text = In the case of some of the stories, the figure of the Future Buddha is, so to speak, lugged in by the heels.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	lugged	lug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the figure of the Future Buddha |  |  | the case of some of the stories |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the figure of the Future Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lug in** | participle | the figure of the Future Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the heels | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **figure** |  |  | the Future Buddha |  |  |  |  | nom figure «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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