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title: “Reverend Sir!” said those monks to the Exalted One in reply. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “Reverend Sir!” said those monks to the Exalted One in reply. Who acts: Reverend. 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 17

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“Reverend Sir!” said those monks to the Exalted One in reply.

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**Who acts:** Reverend · **What happens:** say, exalt · **To what, where:** monks, Exalted One reply · **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 (Reverend), 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:pg74064:9:19
# text = “Reverend Sir!” said those monks to the Exalted One in reply.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Exalted	exalt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
12	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Reverend | that monks | the Exalted One reply |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent monk=Topic to reply=Recipient |
| 2 | **exalt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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