The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 38
How Not To Hit an Insect.
What happens: not hit · To what, where: Insect
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 Hit | advmod |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 Hit | advmod |
| 3 | To | to | PART | _ | 4 Hit | mark |
| 4 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Insect | det |
| 6 | Insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hit | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hit | to-infinitive | a Insect | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme insect=Co-Theme |
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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