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title: 152 48 _In union there is strength_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 152 48 _In union there is strength_ Who acts: 48 union. 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 72

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152 48 \_In union there is strength\_

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**Who acts:** 48 union · **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 (48 union), 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:pg74064:1:78
# text = 152 48 _In union there is strength_
1	152	152	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | 48 union |  |  | there |  | strength *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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