The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 47
It will tear your insides into tatters and fragments and will kill you.
Who acts: sword · What happens: tear, kill · To what, where: insides, tatters, you
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 (sword), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tear | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tear | aux |
| 3 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 insides | nmod:poss |
| 5 | insides | inside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tear | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 tatters | case |
| 7 | tatters | tatter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tear | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fragments | cc |
| 9 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tatters | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kill | cc |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kill | aux |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tear | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | future | sword | your insides | into tatters and fragments result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent inside=Patient into tatter=Result | |||
| 2 | kill | future | sword not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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