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title: _The Grateful Elephant_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: _The Grateful Elephant_ 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 21

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\_The Grateful Elephant\_

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**To what, where:** Grateful Elephant

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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:pg74064:1:22
# text = _The Grateful Elephant_
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	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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