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title: Hearing this, Warriors and Brahmans and others, residents of the cit… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing this, Warriors and Brahmans and others, residents of the city, became enraged. Who acts: Hearing. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 68

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Hearing this, Warriors and Brahmans and others, residents of the city, became enraged.

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**Who acts:** Hearing · **What happens:** hear, become, enrage · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hearing), 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:pg74064:4:72
# text = Hearing this, Warriors and Brahmans and others, residents of the city, became enraged.
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Warriors	Warrior	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  | this |  |  |  | Warriors and Brahmans and others *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | Hearing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **enrage** | participle | Hearing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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