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title: Said the fowler: “My dear, there is no other household I have to pro… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the fowler: “My dear, there is no other household I have to provide for. Who acts: fowler, other household. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 112

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Said the fowler: “My dear, there is no other household I have to provide for.

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**Who acts:** fowler, other household · **What happens:** say, be, have, provide · **To what, where:** other household · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowler, other household), 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:pg74064:5:116
# text = Said the fowler: “My dear, there is no other household I have to provide for.
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fowler |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no other household |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the fowler *= fowler* | no other household *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **provide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no other household *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |

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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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