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title: The more, Sire, the gods of the Thirty-three become annoyed, offende… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The more, Sire, the gods of the Thirty-three become annoyed, offended, indignant, the more does that ogre become handsome and pleasing to look upon and gracious. Who acts: gods. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 27

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The more, Sire, the gods of the Thirty-three become annoyed, offended, indignant, the more does that ogre become handsome and pleasing to look upon and gracious.

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**Who acts:** gods · **What happens:** become, please, look · **To what, where:** Sire

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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 (gods), 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:pg74064:9:30
# text = The more, Sire, the gods of the Thirty-three become annoyed, offended, indignant, the more does that ogre become handsome and pleasing to look upon and gracious.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Sire	Sire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
14	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	indignant	indignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the gods of the Thirty three | Sire |  |  |  | annoyed *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **please** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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