The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 117
And he kept right on running, in spite of the fact that the other little hare kept asking: “Oh! what is it?
Who acts: foot, fact, other little hare · What happens: keep, run, ask, be, spite · To what, where: spite, other little hare, fact · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, fact, other little hare), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 kept | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 running | mark |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 kept | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spite | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 spite | case |
| 9 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 running | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fact | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fact | det |
| 12 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spite | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 kept | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hare | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hare | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hare | amod |
| 17 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fact | acl |
| 19 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 kept | xcomp |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 what | punct |
| 22 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 what | discourse |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Oh | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 it | cop |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 what | nsubj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | foot | what parataxis; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | foot not said here | spite of the fact | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle · passive | the fact not said here | the other little hare | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the other little hare not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | fact | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | spite | the fact | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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