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title: Hearing this, wise men who stood by said: “But, monk, what is the tr… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing this, wise men who stood by said: “But, monk, what is the trouble between you and our king? have you done him some good turn?” Who acts: wise men, monk, you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 64

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Hearing this, wise men who stood by said: “But, monk, what is the trouble between you and our king? have you done him some good turn?”

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**Who acts:** wise men, monk, you · **What happens:** hear, stand by, say, be, do · **To what, where:** this, trouble, good turn, man · **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 (wise men, monk, you), 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:pg74064:4:68
# text = Hearing this, wise men who stood by said: “But, monk, what is the trouble between you and our king? have you done him some good turn?”
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | wise men *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand by** | past | wise men |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | wise men |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | monk and the trouble | the trouble |  |  |  | between you | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | some good turn | man |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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