--- title: With Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cent… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: With Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 89 and 410; also the well-known story in Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. Who acts: Buddhist baby _, _. 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Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 89 and 410; also the well-known story in Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. **Who acts:** Buddhist baby \_, \_ · **What happens:** compare, know, sing, say · **To what, where:** E. · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Buddhist baby \_, \_), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:2:68 # text = With Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 89 and 410; also the well-known story in Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Story Story PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 3 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 7 Buddhist buddhist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 8 Tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 _ _ NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 compare compare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 E. E. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 Chavannes Chavannes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Cinq Cinq PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Cents Cents PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 Contes Contes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 89 89 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 410 410 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 24 also also ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 Joel Joel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Chandler Chandler PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 Harris Harris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 Songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 appos _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 Sayings saying NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **compare** | infinitive | a Buddhist baby \_ | E. 89 and Cinq Cents | | | | with Story; the known story in Joel Chandler and Uncle Remus *parataxis* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent e.=Patient with story=Co-Patient | | 2 | **know** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **sing** | | \_ | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 4 | **say** | | \_ | | | | | | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/66/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/)