Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 88

They will have young ones every six months, and thus I shall have a whole herd of goats.

Who acts: goats, I · What happens: have · To what, where: young ones, whole herd

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 (goats, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 months	det
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
11	thus	thus	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 herd	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 herd	amod
17	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 goats	case
19	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 herd	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	goats = goat	young ones			month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	have	shall	I	a whole herd of goats				thus property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Patient

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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