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title: “The heretics, O monks, the wandering ascetics, are blind, without e… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “The heretics, O monks, the wandering ascetics, are blind, without eyes; know not good, know not evil; know not right, know not wrong. Who acts: heretics. 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 104

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“The heretics, O monks, the wandering ascetics, are blind, without eyes; know not good, know not evil; know not right, know not wrong.

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**Who acts:** heretics · **What happens:** wonder, be, know · **To what, where:** good · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (heretics), 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:pg74064:9:111
# text = “The heretics, O monks, the wandering ascetics, are blind, without eyes; know not good, know not evil; know not right, know not wrong.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heretics	heretic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	6	case	_	_
6	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	ascetics	ascetic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the heretics and monks and the wandering ascetics |  |  |  |  | without eyes; blind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | good |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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