The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 118

The result was that both by indoor-folk and by outdoor-folk he was disliked and detested as much as dust lodged in the eye or as a demon come to eat.

Who acts: result · What happens: be, dislike, detest, lodge, come, eat · To what, where: Wicked, much, eye

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (result), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 folk	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 folk	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 folk	mark
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 folk	nsubj
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 folk	case
7	indoor	indoor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folk	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 indoor	punct
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 folk	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 folk	case
12	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 folk	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 outdoor	punct
14	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 folk	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 disliked	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 disliked	aux:pass
17	disliked	dislike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 folk	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 detested	cc
19	detested	detest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 disliked	conj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 detested	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 dust	case
23	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 much	nmod
24	lodged	lodge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 detested	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 eye	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eye	det
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lodged	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 demon	cc
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 demon	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 demon	det
31	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eye	conj
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lodged	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 eat	mark
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 folk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the result			by indoor folk and outdoor folk; outdoor folk conj	tree rules
2	dislike	past · passive		Wicked			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	detest	participle		much		as dust	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
4	lodge	participle			the eye or a demon		vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location
5	come	infinitive					tree rules
6	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 3, sentence 118

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 118