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title: See Cunningham, Plate xliv. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: See Cunningham, Plate xliv. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 160

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See Cunningham, Plate xliv.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, plate · **To what, where:** Cunningham, xliv

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg74064:2:164
# text = See Cunningham, Plate xliv.
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Cunningham	Cunningham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Plate	plate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	xliv	xliv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | Cunningham |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cunningham=Stimulus |
| 2 | **plate** | infinitive | you *not said here* | xliv |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme xliv=Destination |

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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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