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title: Note on pronunciation of Pāli names viii — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Note on pronunciation of Pāli names viii 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 46

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Note on pronunciation of Pāli names viii

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**What happens:** pronounce · **To what, where:** names viii, Pāli

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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:pg74064:1:52
# text = Note on pronunciation of Pāli names viii
1	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Pāli	Pāli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	viii	viii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **pronounce** |  |  | Pāli |  |  |  |  | nom pronunciation «communication transitive»: of=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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