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title: There were some monks and Brahmans who held this doctrine, who held… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: There were some monks and Brahmans who held this doctrine, who held this view: “The world is eternal. Who acts: monks, doctrine, world. 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 92

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There were some monks and Brahmans who held this doctrine, who held this view: “The world is eternal.

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**Who acts:** monks, doctrine, world · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** doctrine, view

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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, doctrine, world), 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:pg74064:9:99
# text = There were some monks and Brahmans who held this doctrine, who held this view: “The world is eternal.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | some monks and Brahmans |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | some monks and Brahmans | this doctrine |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctrine=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past | this doctrine | this view |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the world |  |  |  |  | eternal *property* | tree rules |

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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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