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title: When the Teacher had related this parable, he uttered, as Supreme Bu… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Teacher had related this parable, he uttered, as Supreme Buddha, the following stanza: Who acts: Teacher. 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 102

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When the Teacher had related this parable, he uttered, as Supreme Buddha, the following stanza:

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**Who acts:** Teacher · **What happens:** relate, utter, follow · **To what, where:** parable, Supreme Buddha

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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 (Teacher), 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:pg74064:3:104
# text = When the Teacher had related this parable, he uttered, as Supreme Buddha, the following stanza:
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
18	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past · perfect | the Teacher | this parable |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | Teacher | Supreme Buddha |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buddha=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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