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title: The anger-eating ogre 72 “_Here, Sire, a certain ogre, ill-favored,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The anger-eating ogre 72 “_Here, Sire, a certain ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, sits in your seat_” Who acts: eating ogre. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 167

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The anger-eating ogre 72 “\_Here, Sire, a certain ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, sits in your seat\_”

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**Who acts:** eating ogre · **What happens:** eat, favor, sit · **To what, where:** seat

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eating ogre), 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:pg74064:1:180
# text = The anger-eating ogre 72 “_Here, Sire, a certain ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, sits in your seat_”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
6	72	72	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Sire	Sire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	favored	favor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dwarfish	dwarfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
23	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | anger *compound* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **favor** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | present | the eating ogre |  |  | your seat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |

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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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