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title: The Future Buddha, keeping not too far away and not too near, led hi… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The Future Buddha, keeping not too far away and not too near, led him on and entered the forest. Who acts: Future Buddha. 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 59

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The Future Buddha, keeping not too far away and not too near, led him on and entered the forest.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha · **What happens:** keep, lead on, enter · **To what, where:** weak, forest

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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), 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:pg74064:7:62
# text = The Future Buddha, keeping not too far away and not too near, led him on and entered the forest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	near	near	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund | the Future Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lead on** | past | the Future Buddha | weak |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | past | the Future Buddha *not said here* | the forest |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination |

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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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