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title: Accordingly, this tree has a symbolic value for Buddhists correspond… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, this tree has a symbolic value for Buddhists corresponding to that which the Cross has for Christians, and is frequently sculptured on the monuments. Who acts: tree, Buddhists, Cross. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3, with its dependency
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 5

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Accordingly, this tree has a symbolic value for Buddhists corresponding to that which the Cross has for Christians, and is frequently sculptured on the monuments.

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**Who acts:** tree, Buddhists, Cross · **What happens:** have, correspond, sculpture · **To what, where:** symbolic value, Christians, monuments

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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 (tree, Buddhists, Cross), 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:pg74064:3:5
# text = Accordingly, this tree has a symbolic value for Buddhists corresponding to that which the Cross has for Christians, and is frequently sculptured on the monuments.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	symbolic	symbolic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Buddhists	buddhist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sculptured	sculpture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | this tree | a symbolic value |  |  |  | for Buddhists; accordingly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient |
| 2 | **correspond** | gerund | Buddhists *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Buddhists | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | the Cross | Christians |  |  |  | which *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sculpture** | present · passive | this tree *not said here* |  |  | the monuments |  | frequently *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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