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title: This _book contains twenty-six stories selected from the author’s la… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: This _book contains twenty-six stories selected from the author’s larger work_ Buddhist Parables, _Yale University Press, 1922. Who acts: book, author. 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 29

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This \_book contains twenty-six stories selected from the author’s larger work\_ Buddhist Parables, \_Yale University Press, 1922.

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**Who acts:** book, author · **What happens:** contain, select, work · **To what, where:** six stories, larger work

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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 (book, author), 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:pg74064:1:32
# text = This _book contains twenty-six stories selected from the author’s larger work_ Buddhist Parables, _Yale University Press, 1922.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Parables	parable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	_	_	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Yale	Yale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Press	Press	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	orphan	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | this book | six stories |  |  |  | Buddhist Parables  \_ University Press *conj* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme |
| 2 | **select** | participle |  | six stories *not said here* |  | the author's larger work |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from work=Source |
| 3 | **work** |  | the author |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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