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title: _ This was said by the Teacher while he was in residence at Jetavana… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: _ This was said by the Teacher while he was in residence at Jetavana with reference to a disobedient monk. Who acts: Teacher, wrong. 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 74

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\_ This was said by the Teacher while he was in residence at Jetavana with reference to a disobedient monk.

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**Who acts:** Teacher, wrong · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** This, disobedient monk, residence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Teacher, wrong), 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:pg74064:8:76
# text = _ This was said by the Teacher while he was in residence at Jetavana with reference to a disobedient monk.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Jetavana	Jetavana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | the Teacher | This | a disobedient monk |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Topic to monk=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | wrong |  |  | residence |  | at Jetavana; with reference | tree rules |

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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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