The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 46
If you eat me, you will not be able to digest that weapon.
Who acts: you · What happens: eat, not be, digest · To what, where: me, weapon
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 eat | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 able | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 digest | mark |
| 12 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 weapon | det |
| 14 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 digest | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | digest | to-infinitive | you not said here | that weapon | tree rules |
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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