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title: 17 1 _Where there’s a will, there’s a way_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 17 1 _Where there’s a will, there’s a way_ 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 53

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17 1 \_Where there’s a will, there’s a way\_

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**To what, where:** 17 1

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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:pg74064:1:59
# text = 17 1 _Where there’s a will, there’s a way_
1	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	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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