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title: If I know, ‘This, for example, is a fault in me,’ I will get rid of… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: If I know, ‘This, for example, is a fault in me,’ I will get rid of it and have to do with good qualities only.” Who acts: I, This. 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 95

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If I know, ‘This, for example, is a fault in me,’ I will get rid of it and have to do with good qualities only.”

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**Who acts:** I, This · **What happens:** know, be, get, have, do · **To what, where:** fault

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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 (I, This), 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:pg74064:7:100
# text = If I know, ‘This, for example, is a fault in me,’ I will get rid of it and have to do with good qualities only.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | This | a fault |  |  |  | for example; in me | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | future | I |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with good qualities | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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