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title: 55: i. 272 58 _Keep the Precepts_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 55: i. 272 58 _Keep the Precepts_ 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 79

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55: i. 272 58 \_Keep the Precepts\_

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**What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** Precepts, 55

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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:pg74064:1:85
# text = 55: i. 272 58 _Keep the Precepts_
1	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
4	272	272	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
5	58	58	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Precepts	Precept	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive |  | the Precepts |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=Theme |

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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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