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title: The Future Buddha thought: “Since I have been ruling righteously, no… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The Future Buddha thought: “Since I have been ruling righteously, no men at all have come for litigation, the hubbub has ceased, the place of litigation has become abandoned. Who acts: Future Buddha, men, place. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 93

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The Future Buddha thought: “Since I have been ruling righteously, no men at all have come for litigation, the hubbub has ceased, the place of litigation has become abandoned.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha, men, place · **What happens:** think, rule, come, cease, become, abandon · **To what, where:** hubbub · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, men, place), 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:pg74064:7:98
# text = The Future Buddha thought: “Since I have been ruling righteously, no men at all have come for litigation, the hubbub has ceased, the place of litigation has become abandoned.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
12	righteously	righteously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	litigation	litigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hubbub	hubbub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	litigation	litigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	parataxis	_	_
34	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Future Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **rule** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | the Future Buddha *= buddha* |  |  |  |  | righteously *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | no men at all |  |  |  |  | for litigation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cease** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the hubbub |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **become** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the place of litigation |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **abandon** *in a quote* | participle | the place of litigation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme |

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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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