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title: On the day when he received his name, because, as they said, “He is… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: On the day when he received his name, because, as they said, “He is born extending a noble heart to the multitude,” they gave him the name Noble-heart, Alīnacitta. Who acts: king, soothsayers, name. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3, with its dependen
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 78

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On the day when he received his name, because, as they said, “He is born extending a noble heart to the multitude,” they gave him the name Noble-heart, Alīnacitta.

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**Who acts:** king, soothsayers, name · **What happens:** receive, say, bear, extend, give, heart · **To what, where:** name, king, noble heart, multitude · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, soothsayers, name), 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:pg74064:3:80
# text = On the day when he received his name, because, as they said, “He is born extending a noble heart to the multitude,” they gave him the name Noble-heart, Alīnacitta.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
20	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	Noble	Noble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Alīnacitta	Alīnacitta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | king | king's name |  |  | day |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | soothsayers *= soothsayer* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **extend** *in a quote* | gerund |  | a noble heart | the multitude |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to multitude=Recipient |
| 5 | **give** | past | soothsayers *= soothsayer* |  | king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **heart** |  | the name |  |  |  |  | Alīnacitta *appos* | tree rules |
| 7 | **name** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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