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title: He overcomes anger with kindness, He overcomes evil with good, The s… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: He overcomes anger with kindness, He overcomes evil with good, The stingy with gifts, the liar with truth. Who acts: charioteer. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 137

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He overcomes anger with kindness, He overcomes evil with good, The stingy with gifts, the liar with truth.

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**Who acts:** charioteer · **What happens:** overcome · **To what, where:** anger

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charioteer), 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:pg74064:7:142
# text = He overcomes anger with kindness, He overcomes evil with good, The stingy with gifts, the liar with truth.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	overcomes	overcome	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	overcomes	overcome	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	liar	liar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** | present | charioteer | anger |  |  |  | with kindness | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anger=Theme |
| 2 | **overcome** | present | charioteer |  |  |  |  | evil *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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