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title: For not alway does strength avail; For strength is the destruction o… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For not alway does strength avail; For strength is the destruction of a fool. 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 62

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For not alway does strength avail; For strength is the destruction of a fool.

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**What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** strength avail, destruction

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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: 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:pg74064:5:64
# text = For not alway does strength avail; For strength is the destruction of a fool.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	alway	alway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	For	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | strength avail |  |  |  | for alway | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avail=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the destruction |  |  |  | for strength; of a fool | tree rules |

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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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