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title: Hearing that the monks of Kosambi were quarreling, the Exalted One w… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing that the monks of Kosambi were quarreling, the Exalted One went to them and said: “Enough, monks! Who acts: Exalted One, monks. 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 26

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Hearing that the monks of Kosambi were quarreling, the Exalted One went to them and said: “Enough, monks!

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**Who acts:** Exalted One, monks · **What happens:** hear, quarrel, exalt, go, say · **To what, where:** Monks · **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 (Exalted One, monks), 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:pg74064:5:28
# text = Hearing that the monks of Kosambi were quarreling, the Exalted One went to them and said: “Enough, monks!
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kosambi	Kosambi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	quarreling	quarrel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the Exalted One *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **quarrel** | past · progressive | the monks of Kosambi |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exalt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go** | past | the Exalted One |  | Monks *= monk* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Exalted One *not said here* | monks |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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