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title: Story 15: i. 289-313. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Story 15: i. 289-313. 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 78

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Story 15: i. 289-313.

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**To what, where:** Story

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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:pg74064:2:81
# text = Story 15: i. 289-313.
1	Story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
5	289-313	289-313	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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