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title: I am not easily vexed in spirit, I am not easily led into a turning,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: I am not easily vexed in spirit, I am not easily led into a turning, I do not cherish anger long, be sure; Anger has no abiding-place in me. Who acts: I, Anger. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 36

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I am not easily vexed in spirit, I am not easily led into a turning, I do not cherish anger long, be sure; Anger has no abiding-place in me.

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**Who acts:** I, Anger · **What happens:** not vex, not lead, not cherish, be, have · **To what, where:** spirit, turning, anger, abiding place

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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 (I, Anger), 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:pg74064:9:39
# text = I am not easily vexed in spirit, I am not easily led into a turning, I do not cherish anger long, be sure; Anger has no abiding-place in me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	turning	turning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	cherish	cherish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Anger	Anger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
31	abiding	abiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **vex** | present · passive | I |  |  | spirit |  | easily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **lead** | present · passive | I |  |  | a turning |  | easily *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into turning=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **cherish** | present · do-support | I | anger |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anger=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | Anger | no abiding place |  |  |  | in me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |

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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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