More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 39

"Now, brother," said the dying man, "Look to my children dear; Be good unto my boy and girl, No friends else have they here; To God and you I recommend My children dear this day; But little while be sure we have Within this world to stay.

Who acts: brother, friends, we · What happens: say, die, look, be, have, recommend · To what, where: children, God · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, friends, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Look	punct
13	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 children	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 children	nmod:poss
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Look	obl
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Look	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
19	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 good	cop
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	23 boy	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 boy	nmod:poss
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 good	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 girl	cc
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boy	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
27	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 friends	det
28	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 have	nsubj
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 friends	advmod
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 good	parataxis
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 here	nsubj
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 have	ccomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 recommend	punct
34	To	to	ADP	_	35 God	case
35	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 recommend	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 you	cc
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 God	conj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 recommend	nsubj
39	recommend	recommend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
40	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 children	nmod:poss
41	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 recommend	obj
42	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 recommend	xcomp
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 day	det
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dear	obl:unmarked
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 sure	punct
46	But	but	CCONJ	_	50 sure	cc
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 sure	obl
48	while	while	SCONJ	_	50 sure	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 sure	cop
50	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
51	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 have	nsubj
52	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 sure	ccomp
53	Within	within	ADP	_	55 world	case
54	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 world	det
55	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 have	obl
56	to	to	PART	_	57 stay	mark
57	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 have	advcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	brother			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	look in a quote	infinitive	brother not said here				to my children; dear property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to child=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	infinitive					unto my boy and girl; good property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	no friends					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	recommend in a quote	present	brother	My children	God		dear property	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Topic to god=Recipient
7	is in a quote	infinitive	brother not said here				little obl; sure property	tree rules
8	have in a quote	present	we				within this world	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	stay in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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