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description: (5) Thou shalt avoid occasions of heedlessness through the use of liquor or spirits or other intoxicants. Who acts: Thou. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 56

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(5) Thou shalt avoid occasions of heedlessness through the use of liquor or spirits or other intoxicants.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** avoid, occasion, use · **To what, where:** 5, use, heedlessness, liquor

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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:pg74064:17:57
# text = (5) Thou shalt avoid occasions of heedlessness through the use of liquor or spirits or other intoxicants.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	heedlessness	heedlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	intoxicants	intoxicant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | shall | Thou | 5 |  | the use of liquor or spirits or other intoxicants |  | occasions of heedlessness *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **occasion** |  |  | heedlessness |  |  |  |  | nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | liquor |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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