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title: The author has not, however, “written down” any of the stories in or… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The author has not, however, “written down” any of the stories in order to remove such difficulties as the original translation may present to the child. Who acts: author, original translation. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tr
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 33

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The author has not, however, “written down” any of the stories in order to remove such difficulties as the original translation may present to the child.

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**Who acts:** author, original translation · **What happens:** not have, write down, remove, present · **To what, where:** such difficulties, child

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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 (author, original translation), 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:pg74064:1:36
# text = The author has not, however, “written down” any of the stories in order to remove such difficulties as the original translation may present to the child.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | the author |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write down** *in a quote* | participle | the author *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remove** | to-infinitive | the author *not said here* | such difficulties |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme |
| 4 | **present** | may | the original translation |  | the child |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient |

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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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