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title: 73: i. 322 9 _Driftwood is worth more than some men_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 73: i. 322 9 _Driftwood is worth more than some men_ Who acts: Driftwood. 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 56

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73: i. 322 9 \_Driftwood is worth more than some men\_

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**Who acts:** Driftwood · **What happens:** be

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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 (Driftwood), 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:pg74064:1:62
# text = 73: i. 322 9 _Driftwood is worth more than some men_
1	73	73	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
4	322	322	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
5	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Driftwood	driftwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Driftwood |  |  |  |  | 73 *obl*; worth *property* | tree rules |

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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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