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title: Story 10, _Vedabbha and the thieves_, is the original of Chaucer’s P… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Story 10, _Vedabbha and the thieves_, is the original of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale; compare also A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 19. Who acts: Story. 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 66

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Story 10, \_Vedabbha and the thieves\_, is the original of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale; compare also A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 19.

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**Who acts:** Story · **What happens:** be, compare · **To what, where:** original, A. Schiefner

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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 (Story), 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:pg74064:2:69
# text = Story 10, _Vedabbha and the thieves_, is the original of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale; compare also A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 19.
1	Story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Vedabbha	Vedabbha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	Chaucer	Chaucer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Pardoner	Pardoner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Schiefner	Schiefner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Story | the original |  |  |  | of Pardoner Tale | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | infinitive |  | A. Schiefner  Tibetan Tales |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schiefner=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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