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title: Thereat, monks, the gods of the Thirty-three became annoyed, offende… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereat, monks, the gods of the Thirty-three became annoyed, offended, indignant: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, should sit in the seat of Sakka king of gods!” Who acts: monks. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 20

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Thereat, monks, the gods of the Thirty-three became annoyed, offended, indignant: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, should sit in the seat of Sakka king of gods!”

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**Who acts:** monks · **What happens:** become, favor, sit · **To what, where:** ogre, seat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monks), 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:pg74064:9:22
# text = Thereat, monks, the gods of the Thirty-three became annoyed, offended, indignant: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, should sit in the seat of Sakka king of gods!”
1	Thereat	thereat	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	indignant	indignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	favored	favor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	dwarfish	dwarfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	Sakka	Sakka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | monks and the gods of the Thirty three |  |  |  |  | annoyed, thereat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **favor** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | this ogre |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | should |  |  |  | the seat of Sakka king of gods |  |  | 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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