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title: Now when he reached the age of reason, elephants from all over Himav… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when he reached the age of reason, elephants from all over Himavat assembled and formed his retinue. Who acts: Buddha, Himavat. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 106

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Now when he reached the age of reason, elephants from all over Himavat assembled and formed his retinue.

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**Who acts:** Buddha, Himavat · **What happens:** reach, assemble, form · **To what, where:** age, elephants, retinue

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddha, Himavat), 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:pg74064:4:112
# text = Now when he reached the age of reason, elephants from all over Himavat assembled and formed his retinue.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Himavat	Himavat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	retinue	retinue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Buddha | the age of reason and elephants |  |  | now |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme |
| 2 | **assemble** | past | Himavat | elephants *not said here* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme |
| 3 | **form** | past | Himavat *not said here* | Buddha's retinue |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location retinue=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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