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title: Variants of Stories 5 and 7 form the frame-story of Panchatantra ii. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Variants of Stories 5 and 7 form the frame-story of Panchatantra ii. Who acts: Variants, 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 56

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Variants of Stories 5 and 7 form the frame-story of Panchatantra ii.

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**Who acts:** Variants, Stories · **What happens:** form, vary · **To what, where:** frame story

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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 (Variants, 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:pg74064:2:59
# text = Variants of Stories 5 and 7 form the frame-story of Panchatantra ii.
1	Variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Panchatantra	Panchatantra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Variants of Stories | the frame story of Panchatantra |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location story=Theme |
| 2 | **vary** |  | Stories |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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