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title: With Story 21, _How not to kill an insect_, compare Aesop’s fable of… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: With Story 21, _How not to kill an insect_, compare Aesop’s fable of the Bald Man and the Fly. 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 72

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With Story 21, \_How not to kill an insect\_, compare Aesop’s fable of the Bald Man and the Fly.

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**What happens:** not kill, compare · **To what, where:** insect, fable

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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: 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:pg74064:2:75
# text = With Story 21, _How not to kill an insect_, compare Aesop’s fable of the Bald Man and the Fly.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Fly	Fly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **kill** | to-infinitive |  | a insect |  |  |  | with Story | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent insect=Patient with story=Instrument |
| 2 | **compare** | infinitive |  | Aesop's fable of the Bald Man and the Fly |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=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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