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title: Unless we see water farther on, we shall not throw away the water we… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Unless we see water farther on, we shall not throw away the water we have brought. Who acts: we. 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 84

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Unless we see water farther on, we shall not throw away the water we have brought.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** see, not throw away, bring · **To what, where:** water

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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 (we), 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:pg74064:15:84
# text = Unless we see water farther on, we shall not throw away the water we have brought.
1	Unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	farther	farther	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we | water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **throw away** | shall | we | the water |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | present · perfect | we | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=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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