--- title: When he thought he had gone far enough, he disguised his tracks, wen… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: When he thought he had gone far enough, he disguised his tracks, went by another path with the speed of the wind, lifted the sack on his horn, flung it on the ground, broke it open, and let out the tortoise. Who acts: Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/60/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/) / 60 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 60 When he thought he had gone far enough, he disguised his tracks, went by another path with the speed of the wind, lifted the sack on his horn, flung it on the ground, broke it open, and let out the tortoise. **Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** think, go, disguise, lift, fling, break · **To what, where:** tracks, sack, horn, ground, tortoise · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Buddha), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:7:63 # text = When he thought he had gone far enough, he disguised his tracks, went by another path with the speed of the wind, lifted the sack on his horn, flung it on the ground, broke it open, and let out the tortoise. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 7 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 enough enough ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 disguised disguise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 45 out out ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Buddha | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past · perfect | Buddha | | | | | enough *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **disguise** | past | Buddha | Buddha's tracks | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent track=Destination | | 4 | **go** | past | Buddha *not said here* | | | | | by another path with the speed of the wind | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by path=Location | | 5 | **lift** | past | Buddha *not said here* | the sack | | Buddha's horn | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on horn=Destination | | 6 | **fling** | past | Buddha *not said here* | sack | | the ground | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination | | 7 | **break** | past | Buddha *not said here* | sack | | | | open *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 8 | **let out** | infinitive | Buddha *not said here* | the tortoise | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/)