The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 17

Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one, Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out!

Who acts: you, father · What happens: bring, reject, cast out · To what, where: Dilah, me

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, father), 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	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Bring	obl
4	Dilah	Dilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Dilah	punct
6	Dilah	Dilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Dilah	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	rejected	reject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Dilah	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Dilah	punct
11	Dilah	Dilah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Dilah	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cast	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cast	obj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cast	nsubj
16	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 father	appos
17	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Dilah	acl:relcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 cast	compound:prt
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	Dilah and Dilah and Dilah	me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dilah=Theme to i=Destination
2	reject	participle				vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	cast out	past	Thakane's father	Dilah and Dilah and Dilah		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Product

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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