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title: “Son, go acquire them under a world-renowned teacher who resides in… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “Son, go acquire them under a world-renowned teacher who resides in the city of Takkasilā in the kingdom of Gandhāra; here is the fee for you to give to this teacher.” Who acts: Son, world renowned teacher, you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 162

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“Son, go acquire them under a world-renowned teacher who resides in the city of Takkasilā in the kingdom of Gandhāra; here is the fee for you to give to this teacher.”

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**Who acts:** Son, world renowned teacher, you · **What happens:** go, acquire, reside, be, give · **To what, where:** arts, city, go fee, teacher

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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 (Son, world renowned teacher, 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:pg74064:7:169
# text = “Son, go acquire them under a world-renowned teacher who resides in the city of Takkasilā in the kingdom of Gandhāra; here is the fee for you to give to this teacher.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	compound	_	_
5	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	renowned	renowned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	resides	reside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Takkasilā	Takkasilā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Gandhāra	Gandhāra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Son |  |  | here |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **acquire** *in a quote* | infinitive | Son *not said here* | arts *= art* |  |  |  | under a world renowned teacher | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Theme |
| 3 | **reside** *in a quote* | present | a world renowned teacher |  |  | the city of Takkasilā in the kingdom of Gandhāra |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the go fee |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you |  | this teacher |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to teacher=Recipient |

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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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