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title: Thus, by the recitation of this stanza, did the Future Buddha preach… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, by the recitation of this stanza, did the Future Buddha preach the Doctrine. Who acts: Future Buddha. 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 3

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Thus, by the recitation of this stanza, did the Future Buddha preach the Doctrine.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha · **What happens:** do, preach, recite · **To what, where:** Doctrine, stanza

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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 (Future Buddha), 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:pg74064:9:3
# text = Thus, by the recitation of this stanza, did the Future Buddha preach the Doctrine.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	recitation	recitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	preach	preach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Doctrine	Doctrine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by the recitation of this stanza; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **preach** *speech: other* | present | the Future Buddha | the Doctrine |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctrine=Topic |
| 3 | **recite** |  |  | this stanza |  |  |  |  | nom recitation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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