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title: A. Canonical version S. v. 146 B. Uncanonical version Jā. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: A. Canonical version S. v. 146 B. Uncanonical version Jā. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 125

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A. Canonical version S. v. 146 B. Uncanonical version Jā.

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**To what, where:** S.

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74064:1:132
# text = A. Canonical version S. v. 146 B. Uncanonical version Jā.
1	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Canonical	Canonical	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	v.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	146	146	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	list	_	_
7	B.	B.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Uncanonical	uncanonical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	Jā	Jā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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