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title: When the Future Buddha was seven years old, he received the ceremoni… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Future Buddha was seven years old, he received the ceremonial sprinkling and became known as King Noble-heart. Who acts: Future Buddha, adversary. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 100

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When the Future Buddha was seven years old, he received the ceremonial sprinkling and became known as King Noble-heart.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha, adversary · **What happens:** be, receive, become, know · **To what, where:** ceremonial sprinkling

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Future Buddha, adversary), 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:pg74064:3:102
# text = When the Future Buddha was seven years old, he received the ceremonial sprinkling and became known as King Noble-heart.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	ceremonial	ceremonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sprinkling	sprinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Noble	Noble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Future Buddha |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | past | adversary | the ceremonial sprinkling |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprinkling=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | adversary *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | participle | adversary *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as Noble  King's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as heart=Attribute |

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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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