Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 32

You have spoken to him angrily for twelve long years; now rather speak kindly.

Who acts: You · What happens: speak · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. 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.

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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 spoken	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spoken	aux
3	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoken	obl
6	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	3 spoken	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoken	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 speak	advmod
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	14 speak	advmod
14	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spoken	parataxis
15	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	14 speak	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · perfect	You		son		year	angrily property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
2	speak speech: other	infinitive					now	kindly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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