--- title: After a time becoming established in the kingdom, he ruled righteous… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: After a time becoming established in the kingdom, he ruled righteously, gave alms and performed the other works of merit, and passed away according to his deeds. Who acts: time, Buddha, merit. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/8/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/8/) / 68 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 68 After a time becoming established in the kingdom, he ruled righteously, gave alms and performed the other works of merit, and passed away according to his deeds. **Who acts:** time, Buddha, merit · **What happens:** become, establish, rule, give, perform, pass away · **To what, where:** kingdom, alms, other works 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 (time, Buddha, merit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:8:68 # text = After a time becoming established in the kingdom, he ruled righteously, gave alms and performed the other works of merit, and passed away according to his deeds. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 becoming become VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 righteously righteously ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 alms alm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 performed perform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 merit merit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 case _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | gerund | a time *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **establish** | participle | a time *not said here* | | | the kingdom | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **rule** | past | Buddha | | | | time | righteously *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | past | Buddha *not said here* | alms | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme | | 5 | **perform** | past | Buddha *not said here* | the other works of merit | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | | 6 | **pass away** | participle | Buddha *not said here* | | | | | accord Buddha's deeds; away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **work** | | merit | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/8/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/8/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/8/)