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title: “For ransom-money, noble sir.” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “For ransom-money, noble sir.” A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 105

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“For ransom-money, noble sir.”

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**To what, where:** noble sir

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. 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:pg74064:8:107
# text = “For ransom-money, noble sir.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	ransom	ransom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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