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title: But if I do not put forth effort, they will all perish. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: But if I do not put forth effort, they will all perish. Who acts: I, earth. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 132

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But if I do not put forth effort, they will all perish.

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**Who acts:** I, earth · **What happens:** not put, perish · **To what, where:** effort

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg74064:10:136
# text = But if I do not put forth effort, they will all perish.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I | effort |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent effort=Goal |
| 2 | **perish** | future | earth |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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