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title: The anger-eating ogre S. i. 237 72 _Refrain from anger_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The anger-eating ogre S. i. 237 72 _Refrain from anger_ 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 84

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The anger-eating ogre S. i. 237 72 \_Refrain from anger\_

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**What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** eating ogre

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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: 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:pg74064:1:90
# text = The anger-eating ogre S. i. 237 72 _Refrain from anger_
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	0	root	_	_
6	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	237	237	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	_
9	72	72	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	list	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Refrain	refrain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	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 |

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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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