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title: Employing right means, the Future Buddha removed that wealth to his… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Employing right means, the Future Buddha removed that wealth to his own home, and during the remainder of the term of life allotted to him gave alms and performed the other works of merit. Who acts: Future Buddha, merit. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, par
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 6

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Employing right means, the Future Buddha removed that wealth to his own home, and during the remainder of the term of life allotted to him gave alms and performed the other works of merit.

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**Who acts:** Future Buddha, merit · **What happens:** employ, mean, remove, allot, give, perform · **To what, where:** wealth, own home, term, Buddha, alms, other works

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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, merit), 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:pg74064:9:6
# text = Employing right means, the Future Buddha removed that wealth to his own home, and during the remainder of the term of life allotted to him gave alms and performed the other works of merit.
1	Employing	employ	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	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	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
17	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	remainder	remainder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remove** | past | the Future Buddha | wealth |  | Buddha's own home |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme to home=Destination |
| 4 | **allot** | participle |  | the term of life *not said here* | Buddha |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal |
| 5 | **give** | past |  | alms |  |  | during the remainder of the term of life |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme |
| 6 | **perform** | past |  | the other works of merit |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 7 | **term** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **work** |  | merit |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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