The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 26

Thereat, Sire, the gods of the Thirty-three are 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: Thirty three, Sire · What happens: be, favor, sit · To what, where: ogre, seat

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 (Thirty three, Sire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thereat	thereat	ADV	_	39 sit	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thereat	punct
3	Sire	Sire	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 sit	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gods	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gods	det
6	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Sire	appos
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 annoyed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 three	det
9	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 three	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Thirty	punct
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 annoyed	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 annoyed	cop
13	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gods	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 offended	punct
15	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 annoyed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 indignant	punct
17	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 annoyed	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 wonderful	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 wonderful	punct
20	O	o	INTJ	_	22 wonderful	discourse
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 wonderful	advmod
22	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Sire	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 marvelous	punct
24	O	o	INTJ	_	26 marvelous	discourse
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 marvelous	advmod
26	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wonderful	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 favored	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 favored	mark
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 ogre	det
30	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 favored	nsubj:pass
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ogre	punct
32	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 favored	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 ill	punct
34	favored	favor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 marvelous	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dwarfish	punct
36	dwarfish	dwarfish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 favored	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Sire	punct
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 sit	aux
39	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 seat	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 seat	det
42	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sit	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 king	case
44	Sakka	Sakka	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 king	compound
45	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 seat	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 gods	case
47	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 king	nmod
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 sit	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Thirty three			annoyed property	tree rules
2	be		the Thirty three not said here				tree rules
3	be		the Thirty three not said here				tree rules
4	favor	participle · passive		this ogre			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	sit	should	Sire		the seat of Sakka king of gods	thereat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location

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.

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 26