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title: With one reason after another he terrified the ogre, preached the Do… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With one reason after another he terrified the ogre, preached the Doctrine to him, subdued him, made him self-denying. Who acts: Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

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With one reason after another he terrified the ogre, preached the Doctrine to him, subdued him, made him self-denying.

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** terrify, preach, subdue, make, deny · **To what, where:** ogre, Doctrine, Buddha

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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 (Buddha), 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:pg74064:8:63
# text = With one reason after another he terrified the ogre, preached the Doctrine to him, subdued him, made him self-denying.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	terrified	terrify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	preached	preach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Doctrine	Doctrine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	denying	deny	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **terrify** | past | Buddha | the ogre |  |  |  | with one reason after another | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ogre=Experiencer |
| 2 | **preach** *speech: other* | past | Buddha *not said here* | the Doctrine | Buddha |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent doctrine=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **subdue** | past | Buddha *not said here* | Buddha |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | Buddha *not said here* | Buddha |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 5 | **deny** | gerund | Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | self *compound* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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