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title: “For, monks, of these kings who took the rod, who took the sword, su… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “For, monks, of these kings who took the rod, who took the sword, such is said to have been the patience and gentleness. Who acts: kings, rod. 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 3

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“For, monks, of these kings who took the rod, who took the sword, such is said to have been the patience and gentleness.

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**Who acts:** kings, rod · **What happens:** take, say, be · **To what, where:** rod, sword, patience · **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 (kings, rod), 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:pg74064:7:3
# text = “For, monks, of these kings who took the rod, who took the sword, such is said to have been the patience and gentleness.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	ccomp	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | past | this kings | the rod |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | past | the rod | the sword |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the sword *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · perfect |  | the patience and gentleness |  |  |  | gentleness *conj* | tree rules |

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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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