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title: Having captured the Brahman Vedabbha, they despatched the Future Bud… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Having captured the Brahman Vedabbha, they despatched the Future Buddha. Who acts: Vedabbha. 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 91

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Having captured the Brahman Vedabbha, they despatched the Future Buddha.

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**Who acts:** Vedabbha · **What happens:** have, capture, despatch · **To what, where:** Brahman Vedabbha, Future 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 (Vedabbha), 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:pg74064:8:93
# text = Having captured the Brahman Vedabbha, they despatched the Future Buddha.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Vedabbha	Vedabbha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	despatched	despatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Vedabbha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **capture** | participle | Vedabbha *not said here* | the Brahman Vedabbha |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vedabbha=Theme |
| 3 | **despatch** | past | Vedabbha | the Future Buddha |  |  |  |  | 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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