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title: The design which appears on the cover, and again on the title-page,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The design which appears on the cover, and again on the title-page, _Elephant and children_, is taken from Cunningham, Plate xxxiii. Who acts: design. 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 87

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The design which appears on the cover, and again on the title-page, \_Elephant and children\_, is taken from Cunningham, Plate xxxiii.

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**Who acts:** design · **What happens:** appear, take, plate · **To what, where:** cover, design, Cunningham, xxxiii

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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 (design), 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:pg74064:2:91
# text = The design which appears on the cover, and again on the title-page, _Elephant and children_, is taken from Cunningham, Plate xxxiii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Cunningham	Cunningham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Plate	plate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
29	xxxiii	xxxiii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | the design and the title page |  |  | the cover |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cover=Location |
| 2 | **take** | present · passive |  | the design and the title page |  | Cunningham |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from cunningham=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **plate** | infinitive |  | xxxiii |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme xxxiii=Destination |

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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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