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title: This remarkable work, which also originated in North India, relates… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: This remarkable work, which also originated in North India, relates in mixed prose and verse the experiences of the Future Buddha in each of 550 states of existence previous to his rebirth as Gotama. Who acts: remarkable work. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Openin
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 5

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This remarkable work, which also originated in North India, relates in mixed prose and verse the experiences of the Future Buddha in each of 550 states of existence previous to his rebirth as Gotama.

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**Who acts:** remarkable work · **What happens:** originate, relate, mix, verse, experience · **To what, where:** North India, mixed prose, experiences, 550 states, Future Buddha

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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 (remarkable work), 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:pg74064:2:5
# text = This remarkable work, which also originated in North India, relates in mixed prose and verse the experiences of the Future Buddha in each of 550 states of existence previous to his rebirth as Gotama.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	originated	originate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	verse	verse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	experiences	experience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	550	550	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Gotama	Gotama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **originate** | past | this remarkable work |  |  | North India |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **relate** | present | this remarkable work |  |  |  |  | in mixed prose *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in prose=Goal |
| 3 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **verse** | present | this remarkable work *not said here* | the experiences of the Future Buddha |  | each 550 states of existence |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **experience** |  |  | the Future Buddha |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition 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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