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title: 44: i. 246 B. Girl and fly Jā. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 44: i. 246 B. Girl and fly 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 131

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44: i. 246 B. Girl and fly Jā.

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**What happens:** fly · **To what, where:** Jā, 44

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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:pg74064:1:138
# text = 44: i. 246 B. Girl and fly Jā.
1	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
4	246	246	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
5	B.	b.	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Girl	Girl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	Jā	Jā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | infinitive |  | Jā |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jā=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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