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title: Now one day the Future Buddha said to those quails: “This fowler is… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now one day the Future Buddha said to those quails: “This fowler is bringing our kinsfolk to destruction. Who acts: Future Buddha, fowler. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 102

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Now one day the Future Buddha said to those quails: “This fowler is bringing our kinsfolk to destruction.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha, fowler · **What happens:** say, bring · **To what, where:** quails, kinsfolk, destruction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Future Buddha, fowler), 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:pg74064:5:106
# text = Now one day the Future Buddha said to those quails: “This fowler is bringing our kinsfolk to destruction.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	quails	quail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	kinsfolk	kinsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Future Buddha |  | that quails |  | now; day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to quail=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · progressive | this fowler | our kinsfolk |  | destruction |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kinsfolk=Theme to destruction=Destination |

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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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