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title: With Story 8, _Brahmadatta and Mallika_, compare Mahābhārata iii. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With Story 8, _Brahmadatta and Mallika_, compare Mahābhārata iii. Who acts: Brahmadatta. 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 63

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With Story 8, \_Brahmadatta and Mallika\_, compare Mahābhārata iii.

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta · **What happens:** compare · **To what, where:** Mahābhārata

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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 (Brahmadatta), 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:pg74064:2:66
# text = With Story 8, _Brahmadatta and Mallika_, compare Mahābhārata iii.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Mallika	Mallika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	Mahābhārata	Mahābhārata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | infinitive | Brahmadatta and Mallika | Mahābhārata |  |  |  | with Story | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mahābhārata=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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