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title: But this is no remarkable thing, that you, receiving admonition from… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: But this is no remarkable thing, that you, receiving admonition from an Omniscient Buddha like me, should decide litigations righteously and justly. Who acts: this, you, remarkable thing. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 79

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But this is no remarkable thing, that you, receiving admonition from an Omniscient Buddha like me, should decide litigations righteously and justly.

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**Who acts:** this, you, remarkable thing · **What happens:** be, receive, decide · **To what, where:** remarkable thing, admonition, Omniscient Buddha, litigations

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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 (this, you, remarkable thing), 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:pg74064:7:84
# text = But this is no remarkable thing, that you, receiving admonition from an Omniscient Buddha like me, should decide litigations righteously and justly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
12	admonition	admonition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Omniscient	omniscient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Buddha	buddha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	litigations	litigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	righteously	righteously	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | no remarkable thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund | you | admonition |  | a Omniscient Buddha like me |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent admonition=Theme from buddha=Source |
| 3 | **decide** | should | no remarkable thing | litigations |  |  |  | righteously *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent litigation=Topic |

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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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