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title: The frontispiece, illustrating Story 1, _The grateful elephant_, rep… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The frontispiece, illustrating Story 1, _The grateful elephant_, represents the scene in the elephant-stable. Who acts: frontispiece. 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 93

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The frontispiece, illustrating Story 1, \_The grateful elephant\_, represents the scene in the elephant-stable.

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**Who acts:** frontispiece · **What happens:** illustrate, represent · **To what, where:** Story, scene

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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 (frontispiece), 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:pg74064:2:97
# text = The frontispiece, illustrating Story 1, _The grateful elephant_, represents the scene in the elephant-stable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frontispiece	frontispiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	illustrating	illustrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **illustrate** | gerund | the frontispiece *not said here* |  | Story |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Destination |
| 2 | **represent** | present | the frontispiece | the scene |  |  |  | in the elephant stable | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot scene=Theme in stable=Attribute |

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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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