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title: In such wise did the Future Buddha recite the disadvantages of doing… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In such wise did the Future Buddha recite the disadvantages of doing deeds contrary to the Precepts, and the advantages of keeping the Five Precepts. Who acts: Future Buddha, disadvantages, advantages. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its depen
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 62

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In such wise did the Future Buddha recite the disadvantages of doing deeds contrary to the Precepts, and the advantages of keeping the Five Precepts.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha, disadvantages, advantages · **What happens:** recite, do, deed, keep · **To what, where:** advantages, such wise, Five Precepts

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. 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, disadvantages, advantages), 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:pg74064:8:62
# text = In such wise did the Future Buddha recite the disadvantages of doing deeds contrary to the Precepts, and the advantages of keeping the Five Precepts.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	recite	recite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	disadvantages	disadvantage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	deeds	deed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
14	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Precepts	Precept	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	advantages	advantage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	Precepts	Precept	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recite** | past · do-support | the Future Buddha | the advantages |  | such wise |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the disadvantages *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deed** | present | the disadvantages |  |  |  |  | contrary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund | the advantages *not said here* | the Five Precepts |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=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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