The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 3

And remember what the medicine-man said: "If the buffalo dies you die also!"'

Who acts: you, medicine man, buffalo · What happens: remember, say, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, medicine man, buffalo), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 remember	cc
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 medicine	punct
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	ccomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 dies	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 buffalo	det
13	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dies	nsubj
14	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 die	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 die	nsubj
16	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	conj
17	also	also	ADV	_	16 die	advmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	remember	imperative	you not said here	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the medicine man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the buffalo	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	die in a quote	present	you	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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