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title: Since he himself ruled so righteously, the ministers of justice also… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Since he himself ruled so righteously, the ministers of justice also transacted their affairs with an eye to righteousness alone. Who acts: Benāres, ministers. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 88

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Since he himself ruled so righteously, the ministers of justice also transacted their affairs with an eye to righteousness alone.

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**Who acts:** Benāres, ministers · **What happens:** rule, transact · **To what, where:** affairs

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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 (Benāres, ministers), 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:pg74064:7:93
# text = Since he himself ruled so righteously, the ministers of justice also transacted their affairs with an eye to righteousness alone.
1	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	righteously	righteously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	transacted	transact	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Benāres |  |  |  |  | righteously *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **transact** | past | the ministers of justice | ministers's affairs |  |  |  | with a eye; to righteousness | 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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