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title: And he kept right on running, in spite of the fact that the other li… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 117

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And he kept right on running, in spite of the fact that the other little hare kept asking: “Oh! what is it?

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**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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:10:121
# text = And he kept right on running, in spite of the fact that the other little hare kept asking: “Oh! what is it?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
19	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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