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title: The result was that both by indoor-folk and by outdoor-folk he was d… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 118

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:3:123
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	indoor	indoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	disliked	dislike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	detested	detest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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