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title: The received text of this work represents a recension made in Ceylon… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The received text of this work represents a recension made in Ceylon early in the fifth century A.D., but much of the material is demonstrably many centuries older. Who acts: received text, much. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 6

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The received text of this work represents a recension made in Ceylon early in the fifth century A.D., but much of the material is demonstrably many centuries older.

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**Who acts:** received text, much · **What happens:** receive, represent, make, be · **To what, where:** recension

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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 (received text, much), 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:pg74064:2:6
# text = The received text of this work represents a recension made in Ceylon early in the fifth century A.D., but much of the material is demonstrably many centuries older.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	recension	recension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
13	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	demonstrably	demonstrably	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **represent** | present | the received text of this work | a recension |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot recension=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a recension *not said here* |  |  | century | Ceylon *obl:agent*; early *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | present | much of the material |  |  |  | century | demonstrably, old *property* | tree rules |

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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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