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title: Thought the royal prince: “This false ascetic does not take it into… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thought the royal prince: “This false ascetic does not take it into his reckoning that I am a royal prince, but does honor to animals.” Who acts: false ascetic, I, ascetic. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 15

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Thought the royal prince: “This false ascetic does not take it into his reckoning that I am a royal prince, but does honor to animals.”

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**Who acts:** false ascetic, I, ascetic · **What happens:** think, not take, be, honor, reckon · **To what, where:** royal prince, food, reckoning · **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 (false ascetic, I, ascetic), 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:pg74064:4:17
# text = Thought the royal prince: “This false ascetic does not take it into his reckoning that I am a royal prince, but does honor to animals.”
1	Thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	reckoning	reckoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	honor	honor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | the royal prince |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent prince=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | present · do-support | this false ascetic | food |  | ascetic's reckoning |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into reckoning=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | a royal prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **honor** *in a quote* | present · do-support | this false ascetic *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to animals | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **reckon** *in a quote* |  | ascetic |  |  |  |  |  | nom reckoning «cognition 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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