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title: For an interesting account of the history of some of the stories, se… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For an interesting account of the history of some of the stories, see W. A. Clouston, _Popular Tales and Fictions_, as follows: Story 2: i. 223-241. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 73

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For an interesting account of the history of some of the stories, see W. A. Clouston, \_Popular Tales and Fictions\_, as follows: Story 2: i. 223-241.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, follow, account · **To what, where:** W., Story, history

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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 (you), 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:pg74064:2:76
# text = For an interesting account of the history of some of the stories, see W. A. Clouston, _Popular Tales and Fictions_, as follows: Story 2: i. 223-241.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	_
33	223-241	223-241	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | W. |  |  |  | for a interesting account of the history of some of the stories; Popular Tales and Fictions *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | present | you *not said here* | Story |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | the history of some of the stories |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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