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title: It is highly probable that the tradition embodied in the texts regar… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: It is highly probable that the tradition embodied in the texts regarding these eleven stories is correct. Who acts: two, tradition. 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 253

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It is highly probable that the tradition embodied in the texts regarding these eleven stories is correct.

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**Who acts:** two, tradition · **What happens:** be, embody, regard · **To what, where:** tradition, texts, eleven stories

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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 (two, tradition), 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:pg74064:1:271
# text = It is highly probable that the tradition embodied in the texts regarding these eleven stories is correct.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
8	embodied	embody	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | two |  |  |  |  | highly, probable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **embody** | participle |  | the tradition *not said here* |  | the texts |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund | the tradition *not said here* | this eleven stories |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the tradition |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |

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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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