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title: Then, monks, Sakka king of gods sat down in his own seat, and appeal… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, monks, Sakka king of gods sat down in his own seat, and appealing to the gods of the Thirty-three, uttered at that time the following stanzas: 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 35

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Then, monks, Sakka king of gods sat down in his own seat, and appealing to the gods of the Thirty-three, uttered at that time the following stanzas:

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**Who acts:** monks · **What happens:** sit down, appeal, utter, follow · **To what, where:** own seat, gods

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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:pg74064:9:38
# text = Then, monks, Sakka king of gods sat down in his own seat, and appealing to the gods of the Thirty-three, uttered at that time the following stanzas:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Sakka	Sakka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	appealing	appeal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	stanzas	stanza	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | monks |  |  | Monk's own seat | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
| 2 | **appeal** | gerund | monks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the gods of the Thirty three | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to god=Experiencer |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle |  | the gods of the Thirty three *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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