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title: 2, _Elephant and monkeys_. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 2, _Elephant and monkeys_. 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 88

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2, \_Elephant and monkeys\_.

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**To what, where:** 2

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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:pg74064:2:92
# text = 2, _Elephant and monkeys_.
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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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