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title: “Precisely so, O monks, the heretics, the wandering ascetics, are bl… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “Precisely so, O monks, the heretics, the wandering ascetics, are blind, without eyes; know not good, know not evil; know not right, know not wrong. Who acts: monks. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 136

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“Precisely so, O monks, the heretics, 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:** monks · **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 (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:pg74064:9:143
# text = “Precisely so, O monks, the heretics, the wandering ascetics, are blind, without eyes; know not good, know not evil; know not right, know not wrong.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	6	case	_	_
6	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heretics	heretic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	ascetics	ascetic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | monks and the heretics and the wandering ascetics |  |  |  |  | eyes *conj*; 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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