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title: In the very first watch of the night the Future Buddha, coming to dr… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In the very first watch of the night the Future Buddha, coming to drink of the water, became entangled in the trap and cried the cry of a captured animal. Who acts: Future Buddha, captured animal. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 21

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In the very first watch of the night the Future Buddha, coming to drink of the water, became entangled in the trap and cried the cry of a captured animal.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha, captured animal · **What happens:** come, drink, entangle, cry, capture · **To what, where:** cry

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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 (Future Buddha, captured animal), 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:pg74064:7:23
# text = In the very first watch of the night the Future Buddha, coming to drink of the water, became entangled in the trap and cried the cry of a captured animal.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	entangled	entangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | the Future Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | the Future Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source |
| 3 | **entangle** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | in the trap; in the first watch of the night  the Future Buddha | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: in watch=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the cry of a captured animal |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
| 5 | **capture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cry** |  | a captured animal |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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