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title: Accordingly I will so act that by the wealth of this tree all living… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly I will so act that by the wealth of this tree all living beings shall be delivered from poverty and distress.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 37

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Accordingly I will so act that by the wealth of this tree all living beings shall be delivered from poverty and distress.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** act, live, deliver · **To what, where:** living beings, poverty

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg74064:16:39
# text = Accordingly I will so act that by the wealth of this tree all living beings shall be delivered from poverty and distress.”
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | future | I |  |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by the wealth of this tree; all *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wealth=Location |
| 3 | **deliver** | shall · passive |  | living beings |  | poverty and distress |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from poverty=Initial\_Location |

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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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