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title: If in this state of existence also, so long as you live, you do evil… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: If in this state of existence also, so long as you live, you do evil deeds, you will go from darkness to darkness. Who acts: you. 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 59

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If in this state of existence also, so long as you live, you do evil deeds, you will go from darkness to darkness.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** live, do, go · **To what, where:** evil deeds, state

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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), 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:pg74064:8:59
# text = If in this state of existence also, so long as you live, you do evil deeds, you will go from darkness to darkness.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | you | evil deeds |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | future | you |  |  | this state of existence |  | from darkness; to darkness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from darkness=Initial\_Location to darkness=Destination |

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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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