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title: It may as well be said here as anywhere else that the saffron yellow… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: It may as well be said here as anywhere else that the saffron yellow of the cover is the exact color of the robes of a Buddhist monk. Who acts: saffron yellow. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 91

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It may as well be said here as anywhere else that the saffron yellow of the cover is the exact color of the robes of a Buddhist monk.

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**Who acts:** saffron yellow · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** artist, exact color · **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 (saffron yellow), 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:pg74064:2:95
# text = It may as well be said here as anywhere else that the saffron yellow of the cover is the exact color of the robes of a Buddhist monk.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	6	cc	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	saffron	saffron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · passive |  | artist |  | here |  | anywhere *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the saffron yellow of the cover | the exact color |  |  |  | of the robes of a Buddhist monk | 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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