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title: Seeing the Future Buddha even from afar, he thought: “Here’s that fa… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing the Future Buddha even from afar, he thought: “Here’s that false ascetic, come to live with me and eat his fill! Who acts: Buddha, false ascetic. 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 51

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Seeing the Future Buddha even from afar, he thought: “Here’s that false ascetic, come to live with me and eat his fill!

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**Who acts:** Buddha, false ascetic · **What happens:** see, think, come, live, eat · **To what, where:** Future Buddha, fill · **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 (Buddha, false 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:pg74064:4:55
# text = Seeing the Future Buddha even from afar, he thought: “Here’s that false ascetic, come to live with me and eat his fill!
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Buddha *not said here* | the Future Buddha |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buddha=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | false ascetic |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | false ascetic *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Buddha | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | false ascetic *not said here* | Buddha's fill |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=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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