Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 8

But he replied, "I pray you not to be discouraged; I will return soon, and if it is possible bring my father and mother and uncles with me."

Who acts: Balna, determination · What happens: reply, pray, not be, return, be, bring · To what, where: you, father · 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 (Balna, determination), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 replied	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pray	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pray	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pray	nsubj
7	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pray	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 discouraged	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 discouraged	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 discouraged	cop
12	discouraged	discouraged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pray	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 return	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 return	aux
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	conj
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 return	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bring	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bring	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 possible	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 possible	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 possible	cop
23	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bring	advcl
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bring	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mother	cc
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 father	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 uncles	cc
30	uncles	uncle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bring	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 uncles	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 bring	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Balna				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pray in a quote	present	Balna	you			tree rules
3	not is in a quote	to-infinitive	Balna not said here			discouraged property	tree rules
4	return in a quote	future	Balna			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	determination			possible property	tree rules
6	bring in a quote	infinitive			my father and mother		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination
7	uncle in a quote	present				with Balna	tree rules

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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