Complex sentence: He brings her to the edge of a cliff to shoot her to death, but she refuses to die at his hands and jumps off the cliff into the water far below, hoping to kill herself, but fails to do so.
Split into simpler sentences: He brings her to the edge of a cliff to shoot her to death. She refuses to die at his hands and jumps off the cliff into the water far below, hoping to kill herself, but fails to do so.