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title: The latter must not, of course, be allowed to die. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter must not, of course, be allowed to die. Who acts: latter. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 39

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The latter must not, of course, be allowed to die.

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**Who acts:** latter · **What happens:** allow, die · **To what, where:** latter

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter), 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:pg74064:2:41
# text = The latter must not, of course, be allowed to die.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
7	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | infinitive · passive |  | the latter |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **die** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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