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title: And in anger and displeasure Mistress Vedehikā gave vent to her disp… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And in anger and displeasure Mistress Vedehikā gave vent to her displeasure in words. Who acts: Vedehikā. 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 66

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And in anger and displeasure Mistress Vedehikā gave vent to her displeasure in words.

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**Who acts:** Vedehikā · **What happens:** give, displease · **To what, where:** vent, displeasure, anger

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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 (Vedehikā), 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:pg74064:9:71
# text = And in anger and displeasure Mistress Vedehikā gave vent to her displeasure in words.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	displeasure	displeasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	vent	vent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	displeasure	displeasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | vent | Vedehikā's displeasure | anger and displeasure Mistress |  | in words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to displeasure=Recipient |
| 2 | **displease** |  | Vedehikā |  |  |  |  |  | nom displeasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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