The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 97
If you do so, you will yourself come to ruin, and these five hundred thieves likewise.”
Who acts: you · What happens: do, come, ruin · To what, where: hundred thieves
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 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ruin | mark |
| 11 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thieves | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thieves | cc |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 thieves | det |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | compound |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 thieves | nummod |
| 17 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ruin | obj |
| 18 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 17 thieves | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | future | you | yourself nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ruin | to-infinitive | you not said here | this hundred thieves | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Patient |
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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