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title: _To my nephew Westcott_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: _To my nephew Westcott_ 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 28

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\_To my nephew Westcott\_

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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: 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:pg74064:1:31
# text = _To my nephew Westcott_
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Westcott	Westcott	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	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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