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title: And conferring the ceremonial sprinkling on the Future Buddha, they… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And conferring the ceremonial sprinkling on the Future Buddha, they established him in the kingdom. Who acts: ceremonial, feet. 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 74

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And conferring the ceremonial sprinkling on the Future Buddha, they established him in the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** ceremonial, feet · **What happens:** confer, sprinkle, establish · **To what, where:** ceremonial, Future Buddha, king, kingdom

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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 (ceremonial, feet), 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:pg74064:4:78
# text = And conferring the ceremonial sprinkling on the Future Buddha, they established him in the kingdom.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	conferring	confer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ceremonial	ceremonial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confer** | gerund |  | the ceremonial |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sprinkle** | gerund | the ceremonial *not said here* |  |  | the Future Buddha |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on buddha=Destination |
| 3 | **establish** | past | feet *= foot* | king |  | the kingdom |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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