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title: Then said the Future Buddha: “Master man, don’t be afraid: I’ll cond… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the Future Buddha: “Master man, don’t be afraid: I’ll conduct you to the path of man.” Who acts: man, I. 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 124

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Then said the Future Buddha: “Master man, don’t be afraid: I’ll conduct you to the path of man.”

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**Who acts:** man, I · **What happens:** say, not be, conduct · **To what, where:** Future Buddha, you, path · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man, I), 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:pg74064:4:130
# text = Then said the Future Buddha: “Master man, don’t be afraid: I’ll conduct you to the path of man.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Buddha	buddha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Master	master	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Future Buddha |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Master's man |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **conduct** *in a quote* | future | I | you |  | the path of man |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to path=Destination |

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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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