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title: _And Other Stories Translated from the Pāli_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: _And Other Stories Translated from the Pāli_ Who acts: Pāli. 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 22

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\_And Other Stories Translated from the Pāli\_

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**Who acts:** Pāli · **What happens:** translate · **To what, where:** \_

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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 (Pāli), 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:pg74064:1:23
# text = _And Other Stories Translated from the Pāli_
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	Translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Pāli	Pāli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | participle · passive | the Pāli | \_ and Other Stories |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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