The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 21
But I must not go back without first of all killing him and eating his flesh.”
Who acts: I, all · What happens: not go back, kill, eat · To what, where: man, flesh
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 (I, all), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 killing | mark |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 without | advmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 without | fixed |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 killing | nsubj |
| 11 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 go | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eating | cc |
| 14 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 killing | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 16 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eating | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go back | must | I | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | all | man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | all not said here | man's flesh | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=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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