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title: How much more, monks, should you, who have retired from the world un… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: How much more, monks, should you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, let your light so shine in this world as to be known of men as patient and gentle.” Who acts: more monks, your. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 4

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How much more, monks, should you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, let your light so shine in this world as to be known of men as patient and gentle.”

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**Who acts:** more monks, your · **What happens:** retire, teach, let, know, light · **To what, where:** world, more monks, light

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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 (more monks, your), 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:pg74064:7:4
# text = How much more, monks, should you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, let your light so shine in this world as to be known of men as patient and gentle.”
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Discipline	discipline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** | present · perfect |  |  |  | the world |  | under a Doctrine and Discipline; who *nsubj* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from world=Source |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | more monks  you |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | more monks  you *not said here* | your light |  |  |  | shine *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent light=Recipient shine=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | to-infinitive · passive | more monks  you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of men; as patient | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of man=Stimulus |
| 5 | **light** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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