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title: 138; C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara i. 296; also Aesop’s fable of th… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 138; C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara i. 296; also Aesop’s fable of the Lion and the Mouse. 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 61

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138; C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara i. 296; also Aesop’s fable of the Lion and the Mouse.

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**To what, where:** 138

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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:pg74064:2:64
# text = 138; C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara i. 296; also Aesop’s fable of the Lion and the Mouse.
1	138	138	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	C.	C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Tawney	Tawney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Kathāsaritsāgara	Kathāsaritsāgara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	appos	_	_
9	296	296	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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