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title: The rest of the stories (except 25 and 26) are taken from the _Book… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest of the stories (except 25 and 26) are taken from the _Book of the Buddha’s Previous Existences_ or _Jātaka Book_. 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 4

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The rest of the stories (except 25 and 26) are taken from the \_Book of the Buddha’s Previous Existences\_ or \_Jātaka Book\_.

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**What happens:** take · **To what, where:** rest, \_ Book

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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: 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:pg74064:2:4
# text = The rest of the stories (except 25 and 26) are taken from the _Book of the Buddha’s Previous Existences_ or _Jātaka Book_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	except	except	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	Previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Existences	existence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Jātaka	Jātaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · passive |  | the rest of the stories |  | the \_ Book of the Buddha |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from book=Initial\_Location |

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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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