The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 132
Suppose I were to strike him with the sword and kill him the very moment he returns!”
Who acts: you, I, fellow · What happens: suppose, strike, kill, return · To what, where: fellow, moment · Speech: someone speaks here
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, fellow), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 strike | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strike | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 strike | mark |
| 5 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 strike | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sword | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strike | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kill | cc |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Suppose | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 moment | advmod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 returns | nsubj |
| 17 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 moment | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | strike | past | I | fellow | with the sword | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with sword=Instrument | |||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | fellow | moment | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | return | present | fellow | the moment not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=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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