The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 10
You would do well to be careful about attacking me, for with an arrow steeped in poison will I pierce your flesh and fell you on the spot!”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: do, be, attack, steep, pierce, fall · To what, where: me, flesh, you, spot
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 careful | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 careful | cop |
| 7 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 do | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 attacking | mark |
| 9 | attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 careful | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 attacking | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 steeped | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 arrow | case |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 arrow | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 arrow | det |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 steeped | obl |
| 16 | steeped | steep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 poison | case |
| 18 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 steeped | obl |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 pierce | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pierce | nsubj |
| 21 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 steeped | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 23 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pierce | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 steeped | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 fell | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would | You | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | You not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attack | gerund | You not said here | me | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 4 | steep | past | for a arrow; in poison | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in poison=Instrument | |||||
| 5 | pierce | future | I | your flesh | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | you | the spot | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |
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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