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title: Stories 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, and 24 illustrate the same process in a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Stories 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, and 24 illustrate the same process in a very striking way. Who acts: Stories. 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 31

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Stories 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, and 24 illustrate the same process in a very striking way.

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**Who acts:** Stories · **What happens:** illustrate, strike · **To what, where:** same process, striking way

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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 (Stories), 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:pg74064:2:33
# text = Stories 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, and 24 illustrate the same process in a very striking way.
1	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
2	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	_
14	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **illustrate** | present | Stories | the same process |  | a striking way |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent process=Destination |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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