The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 52
_ (1) Thou shalt not take the life of any living being.
Who acts: _ · What happens: not take · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 1 | punct |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 _ | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 1 | punct |
| 5 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 _ | nmod |
| 6 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 take | advmod |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 life | det |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 living | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 living | det |
| 13 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 life | nmod |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 take | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | shall | _ Thou | the life of any living | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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