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title: Dragon Jewel-neck 99 _Nobody loves a beggar_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Dragon Jewel-neck 99 _Nobody loves a beggar_ Who acts: Dragon. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 107

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Dragon Jewel-neck 99 \_Nobody loves a beggar\_

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**Who acts:** Dragon · **What happens:** love · **To what, where:** beggar

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon), 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:pg74064:1:113
# text = Dragon Jewel-neck 99 _Nobody loves a beggar_
1	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Dragon | a beggar |  |  |  | Nobody *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beggar=Stimulus |

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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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