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title: Fairy-prince and griffin Kathāsaritsāgara, 22 and 90 157 _Eat me, O… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairy-prince and griffin Kathāsaritsāgara, 22 and 90 157 _Eat me, O griffin! Who acts: Kathāsaritsāgara. 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 152

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Fairy-prince and griffin Kathāsaritsāgara, 22 and 90 157 \_Eat me, O griffin!

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**Who acts:** Kathāsaritsāgara · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** me

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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: who acts (Kathāsaritsāgara), 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:pg74064:1:162
# text = Fairy-prince and griffin Kathāsaritsāgara, 22 and 90 157 _Eat me, O griffin!
1	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Kathāsaritsāgara	Kathāsaritsāgara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	157	157	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	case	_	_
17	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive | Kathāsaritsāgara  Fairy prince and griffin | me |  |  |  | griffin *conj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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