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title: A pure white elephant is shown in the act of raising the young princ… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: A pure white elephant is shown in the act of raising the young prince, the Future Buddha, to his shoulders. Who acts: act. 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 94

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A pure white elephant is shown in the act of raising the young prince, the Future Buddha, to his shoulders.

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**Who acts:** act · **What happens:** show, raise · **To what, where:** pure white elephant, shoulders, young prince

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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 (act), 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:pg74064:2:98
# text = A pure white elephant is shown in the act of raising the young prince, the Future Buddha, to his shoulders.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · passive |  | a pure white elephant | elephant's shoulders |  |  | in the act | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in act=Topic to shoulder=Recipient |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | the act *not said here* | the young prince |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |

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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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