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title: The Future Buddha, having remained on earth during the term of life… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The Future Buddha, having remained on earth during the term of life allotted to him, passed away according to his deeds. Who acts: Future Buddha. 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 18

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The Future Buddha, having remained on earth during the term of life allotted to him, passed away according to his deeds.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha · **What happens:** remain, allot, pass away, accord, term · **To what, where:** earth, life

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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), 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:pg74064:5:18
# text = The Future Buddha, having remained on earth during the term of life allotted to him, passed away according to his deeds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | gerund · perfect | the Future Buddha |  |  | earth | during the term of life |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
| 2 | **allot** | participle |  | life *not said here* | earth |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal |
| 3 | **pass away** | participle | the Future Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord earth's deeds; away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **term** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication 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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