The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 42
I am weak: do not kill my little ones.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not kill · To what, where: little ones
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 weak | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 weak | cop |
| 3 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 kill | advmod |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 weak | conj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ones | nmod:poss |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kill | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 weak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not kill | infinitive · do-support | I not said here | my little ones | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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