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title: Let none come unto any adversity! — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Let none come unto any adversity! Who acts: you, none. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 2

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Let none come unto any adversity!

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**Who acts:** you, none · **What happens:** let, come · **To what, where:** none

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, none), 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:pg74064:12:2
# text = Let none come unto any adversity!
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	adversity	adversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto any adversity | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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