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title: And sitting on one side, those monks reported the matter to the Exal… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And sitting on one side, those monks reported the matter to the Exalted One. Who acts: monks. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 103

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And sitting on one side, those monks reported the matter to the Exalted One.

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**Who acts:** monks · **What happens:** sit, report, exalt · **To what, where:** one side, matter, One

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monks), 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:pg74064:9:110
# text = And sitting on one side, those monks reported the matter to the Exalted One.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
15	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | that monks *not said here* |  |  | one side |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 2 | **report** | past | that monks | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **exalt** | participle | that monks *not said here* | One |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |

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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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