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title: If I go second, I can sell my goods for whatever price they have fix… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: If I go second, I can sell my goods for whatever price they have fixed.” Who acts: I, price. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 25

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If I go second, I can sell my goods for whatever price they have fixed.”

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**Who acts:** I, price · **What happens:** go, sell, fix · **To what, where:** goods

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, price), 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:pg74064:15:25
# text = If I go second, I can sell my goods for whatever price they have fixed.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  | second *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | can | I | my goods |  |  |  | for price  whatever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent goods=Theme for price=Asset |
| 3 | **fix** | present · perfect · passive | price  whatever *not said here* | goods |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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