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title: 72: i. 319 19 _The whole earth will not satisfy an ungrateful man_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 72: i. 319 19 _The whole earth will not satisfy an ungrateful man_ Who acts: whole earth. 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 59

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72: i. 319 19 \_The whole earth will not satisfy an ungrateful man\_

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**Who acts:** whole earth · **What happens:** not satisfy · **To what, where:** ungrateful man, 72

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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 (whole earth), 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:pg74064:1:65
# text = 72: i. 319 19 _The whole earth will not satisfy an ungrateful man_
1	72	72	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
4	319	319	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **satisfy** | future | the whole earth | a ungrateful man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |

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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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