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title: If the monkey considered the best of the crowd Has wisdom like this,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: If the monkey considered the best of the crowd Has wisdom like this, Then what in the world must the others be like? Who acts: monkey, best. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 35

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If the monkey considered the best of the crowd Has wisdom like this, Then what in the world must the others be like?

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**Who acts:** monkey, best · **What happens:** consider, have · **To what, where:** wisdom

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, best), 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:pg74064:14:36
# text = If the monkey considered the best of the crowd Has wisdom like this, Then what in the world must the others be like?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  | what in the world *obl* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the best of the crowd | wisdom |  |  |  | like this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=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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