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title: For example, the stanzas rank as canonical Scripture, older versions… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, the stanzas rank as canonical Scripture, older versions of some of the stories occur in the canonical texts, and many of the stories (including 4 and 7 and 22) are illustrated by Bharahat sculptures of the third century B.C. Who acts: stanzas, older versions, Bharahat sculptures. A sent
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 7

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For example, the stanzas rank as canonical Scripture, older versions of some of the stories occur in the canonical texts, and many of the stories (including 4 and 7 and 22) are illustrated by Bharahat sculptures of the third century B.C.

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**Who acts:** stanzas, older versions, Bharahat sculptures · **What happens:** rank, occur, include, illustrate · **To what, where:** canonical texts, 4, many

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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 (stanzas, older versions, Bharahat sculptures), 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:pg74064:2:7
# text = For example, the stanzas rank as canonical Scripture, older versions of some of the stories occur in the canonical texts, and many of the stories (including 4 and 7 and 22) are illustrated by Bharahat sculptures of the third century B.C.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stanzas	stanza	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rank	rank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	canonical	canonical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Scripture	Scripture	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	canonical	canonical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	parataxis	_	_
31	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Bharahat	Bharahat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	sculptures	sculpture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	45	amod	_	_
45	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rank** | present | the stanzas |  |  |  |  | for example; as canonical Scripture | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as scripture=Attribute |
| 2 | **occur** | present | older versions of some of the stories |  |  | the canonical texts |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in text=Location |
| 3 | **include** | gerund |  | 4 |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Theme |
| 4 | **illustrate** | present · passive | Bharahat sculptures of the third century | many of the stories |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |

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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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