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title: Thought he: “It is not fitting that that man should die in sight of… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thought he: “It is not fitting that that man should die in sight of an ascetic like me, endowed with friendliness and compassion. Who acts: sound, man. 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 5

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Thought he: “It is not fitting that that man should die in sight of an ascetic like me, endowed with friendliness and compassion.

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**Who acts:** sound, man · **What happens:** think, not fit, die, endow, sight · **To what, where:** Buddha, ascetic · **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 (sound, man), 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:pg74064:4:6
# text = Thought he: “It is not fitting that that man should die in sight of an ascetic like me, endowed with friendliness and compassion.
1	Thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	fitting	fit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	friendliness	friendliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 |  | Buddha |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **fit** *in a quote* | present · progressive | sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | should | that man |  |  |  |  | like me; in sight of a ascetic | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sight=Attribute |
| 4 | **endow** *in a quote* | participle | sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with friendliness and compassion | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with friendliness=Theme |
| 5 | **sight** *in a quote* |  |  | a ascetic |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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