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title: With Story 13, _Blind men and elephant_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With Story 13, _Blind men and elephant_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 86. Who acts: Blind men. 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 67

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With Story 13, \_Blind men and elephant\_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 86.

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**Who acts:** Blind men · **What happens:** compare · **To what, where:** E.

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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 (Blind men), 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:pg74064:2:70
# text = With Story 13, _Blind men and elephant_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 86.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Chavannes	Chavannes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Cinq	Cinq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Cents	Cents	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	Contes	Contes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	86	86	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | infinitive | Blind men and elephant | E. and Cinq Cents |  |  |  | with Story | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent e.=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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