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title: Then he transformed him into a spirit entitled to receive offerings… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he transformed him into a spirit entitled to receive offerings in the forest, and having admonished him to be heedful, departed from the forest. Who acts: Buddha. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 65

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Then he transformed him into a spirit entitled to receive offerings in the forest, and having admonished him to be heedful, departed from the forest.

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**Who acts:** Buddha · **What happens:** transform, entitle, receive, have, admonish, be · **To what, where:** ogre, spirit, offerings, forest, 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:pg74064:8:65
# text = Then he transformed him into a spirit entitled to receive offerings in the forest, and having admonished him to be heedful, departed from the forest.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	transformed	transform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	reparandum	_	_
18	admonished	admonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	heedful	heedful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | past | Buddha | ogre |  |  | then | into a spirit *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into spirit=Result |
| 2 | **entitle** | participle |  | a spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive |  | offerings |  | the forest |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent offering=Theme in forest=Location |
| 4 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **admonish** | past | Buddha *not said here* |  | Buddha |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heedful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **depart** | participle | Buddha *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial\_Location |

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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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