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title: With Story 15, _A Buddhist Henny-Penny_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibet… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With Story 15, _A Buddhist Henny-Penny_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 22; also the well-known children’s story of the same name. Who acts: Buddhist Henny. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 70

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With Story 15, \_A Buddhist Henny-Penny\_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 22; also the well-known children’s story of the same name.

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**Who acts:** Buddhist Henny · **What happens:** compare, know · **To what, where:** A.

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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 (Buddhist Henny), 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:pg74064:2:73
# text = With Story 15, _A Buddhist Henny-Penny_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 22; also the well-known children’s story of the same name.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	15	15	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	8	det	_	_
7	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Penny	Penny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	Schiefner	Schiefner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | infinitive | a Buddhist Henny | A. and Tibetan Tales |  |  |  | with Story; the known children's story of the same name *parataxis* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent a.=Patient with story=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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