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title: “Precisely so, monks, here in this world, many a monk is ever so gen… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “Precisely so, monks, here in this world, many a monk is ever so gentle, ever so meek, ever so tranquil, so long as unpleasant remarks do not reach him. Who acts: unpleasant remarks. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 83

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“Precisely so, monks, here in this world, many a monk is ever so gentle, ever so meek, ever so tranquil, so long as unpleasant remarks do not reach him.

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**Who acts:** unpleasant remarks · **What happens:** not reach · **To what, where:** Monk

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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 (unpleasant remarks), 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:pg74064:9:88
# text = “Precisely so, monks, here in this world, many a monk is ever so gentle, ever so meek, ever so tranquil, so long as unpleasant remarks do not reach him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	meek	meek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tranquil	tranquil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
33	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reach** *in a quote* | present · do-support | unpleasant remarks | Monk |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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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