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title: With Story 19, _Partridge, monkey, and elephant_, compare A. Schiefn… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With Story 19, _Partridge, monkey, and elephant_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 24. Who acts: Partridge. 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 71

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With Story 19, \_Partridge, monkey, and elephant\_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 24.

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**Who acts:** Partridge · **What happens:** compare · **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 (Partridge), 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:pg74064:2:74
# text = With Story 19, _Partridge, monkey, and elephant_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 24.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Partridge	partridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	Schiefner	Schiefner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | infinitive | Partridge with Story and monkey | A. and Tibetan Tales |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a.=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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