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title: With Story 2, _Grateful animals and ungrateful man_, compare R. Schm… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With Story 2, _Grateful animals and ungrateful man_, compare R. Schmidt, Panchatantra i. 9; C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara ii. Who acts: Grateful animals. 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 51

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With Story 2, \_Grateful animals and ungrateful man\_, compare R. Schmidt, Panchatantra i. 9; C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara ii.

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**Who acts:** Grateful animals · **What happens:** compare · **To what, where:** R.

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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 (Grateful animals), 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:pg74064:2:54
# text = With Story 2, _Grateful animals and ungrateful man_, compare R. Schmidt, Panchatantra i. 9; C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara ii.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	Schmidt	Schmidt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Panchatantra	Panchatantra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	list	_	_
18	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	_
19	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	C.	C.	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
22	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Tawney	Tawney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Kathāsaritsāgara	Kathāsaritsāgara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | infinitive | Grateful animals and ungrateful man | R.  Panchatantra |  |  |  | with Story; C. and H. Tawney *parataxis* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent r.=Patient with story=Co-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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