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title: If you want money, have patience, and I will cause the Rain of Riche… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: If you want money, have patience, and I will cause the Rain of Riches then.” Who acts: you, I. 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 120

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If you want money, have patience, and I will cause the Rain of Riches then.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** want, have, cause, rain · **To what, where:** money, patience, Rain, Riches

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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: who acts (you, I), 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:pg74064:8:122
# text = If you want money, have patience, and I will cause the Rain of Riches then.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | money |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | patience |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |
| 3 | **cause** | future | I | the Rain of Riches |  |  | then |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient |
| 4 | **rain** |  |  | Riches |  |  |  |  | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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