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title: It is quite clear that in the case of these stories also we are deal… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: It is quite clear that in the case of these stories also we are dealing with simple folk-tales which have undergone only slight modification. Who acts: we. 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 47

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It is quite clear that in the case of these stories also we are dealing with simple folk-tales which have undergone only slight modification.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** be, deal, undergo · **To what, where:** case, simple folk tales

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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 (we), 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:pg74064:2:49
# text = It is quite clear that in the case of these stories also we are dealing with simple folk-tales which have undergone only slight modification.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	undergone	undergo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	modification	modification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deal** | present · progressive | we |  |  | the case of this stories |  | with simple folk tales | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tale=Theme |
| 3 | **undergo** | present · perfect · passive |  | simple folk tales |  |  |  | slight modification *obj* | tree rules |

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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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