Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 7

His aunts, on learning his determination, were much alarmed and tried to dissuade him, saying, "We have lost our husbands, and our sister and her husband, and you are now our sole hope; if you go away, what shall we do?"

Who acts: aunts, We, you, Balna · What happens: learn, alarm, try, dissuade, say, lose · To what, where: determination, aunts, Balna, husbands, sole hope · 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 (aunts, We, you, Balna), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunts	nmod:poss
2	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 alarmed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 learning	punct
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 learning	mark
5	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 aunts	acl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 determination	nmod:poss
7	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learning	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 aunts	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 alarmed	aux:pass
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 alarmed	advmod
11	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tried	cc
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 alarmed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dissuade	mark
15	dissuade	dissuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dissuade	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 dissuade	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lost	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 lost	punct
21	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 lost	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 saying	ccomp
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husbands	nmod:poss
25	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lost	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sister	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sister	cc
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sister	nmod:poss
29	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lost	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 husband	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 husband	nmod:poss
32	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sister	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hope	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hope	cc
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 hope	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 hope	cop
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 hope	advmod
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hope	nmod:poss
39	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hope	amod
40	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sister	conj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 do	punct
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 go	mark
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 go	nsubj
44	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 do	advcl
45	away	away	ADV	_	44 go	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 do	obj
48	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 do	aux
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 do	nsubj
50	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 alarmed	parataxis
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	50 do	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund	Balna's aunts not said here	Balna's determination				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent determination=Topic
2	alarm	past · passive		Balna's aunts				tree rules
3	try	past						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dissuade not said to happen	to-infinitive			Balna			vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary
5	say speech: ask	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	lose in a quote	present · perfect	We	our husbands			our sister and dog's husband and our sole hope obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
7	is a in a quote	present	you	our sole hope		now		tree rules
8	go away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	do in a quote	shall	we					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
10	determine		Balna					nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=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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