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title: For, addressing that monk, the Teacher asked: “Monk, is it true, as… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For, addressing that monk, the Teacher asked: “Monk, is it true, as they allege, that you have relaxed effort?” Who acts: Teacher, Monk, monks, you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 151

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For, addressing that monk, the Teacher asked: “Monk, is it true, as they allege, that you have relaxed effort?”

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**Who acts:** Teacher, Monk, monks, you · **What happens:** address, ask, be, allege, have · **To what, where:** relaxed effort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teacher, Monk, monks, 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:pg74064:7:158
# text = For, addressing that monk, the Teacher asked: “Monk, is it true, as they allege, that you have relaxed effort?”
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	allege	allege	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | gerund | the Teacher *not said here* |  |  |  |  | monk *advcl* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Monk |  |  |  |  | parable *nsubj*; true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **allege** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | monks *= monk* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | relaxed effort |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=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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