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title: With Story 4, _Quail, crow, fly, frog, and elephants_, compare R. Sc… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With Story 4, _Quail, crow, fly, frog, and elephants_, compare R. Schmidt, Panchatantra i. 18. Who acts: Quail. 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 55

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With Story 4, \_Quail, crow, fly, frog, and elephants\_, compare R. Schmidt, Panchatantra i. 18.

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**Who acts:** Quail · **What happens:** crow, fly, compare · **To what, where:** elephants, 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 (Quail), 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:pg74064:2:58
# text = With Story 4, _Quail, crow, fly, frog, and elephants_, compare R. Schmidt, Panchatantra i. 18.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Quail	quail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	crow	crow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	Schmidt	Schmidt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Panchatantra	Panchatantra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	list	_	_
23	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	dep	_	_
24	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crow** | infinitive | Quail | elephants |  |  |  | with Story | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive | Quail *not said here* |  |  |  |  | frog *conj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** | infinitive |  | R.  Panchatantra |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent r.=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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