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title: Let no living being without feet injure me! — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Let no living being without feet injure me! Who acts: you, feet. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 166

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Let no living being without feet injure me!

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**Who acts:** you, feet · **What happens:** let, injure · **To what, where:** living, me

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, feet), 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:pg74064:11:177
# text = Let no living being without feet injure me!
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	injure	injure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | no living |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme |
| 2 | **injure** | present | feet | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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