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title: For, Sire, of a surety he must be an anger-eating ogre!” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For, Sire, of a surety he must be an anger-eating ogre!” Who acts: Sire. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 28

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For, Sire, of a surety he must be an anger-eating ogre!”

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**Who acts:** Sire · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** eating ogre

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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 (Sire), 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:pg74064:9:31
# text = For, Sire, of a surety he must be an anger-eating ogre!”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Sire	Sire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	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 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | anger *compound* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | must | Sire | a eating ogre |  |  |  | of a surety | tree rules |

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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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