Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 126

If we die, we die both together; for I will cut off this head of yours, and cast it to the ground!"

Who acts: we, I · What happens: die, cut off, cast · To what, where: head, ground

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 die	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 die	nsubj
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 die	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 die	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 together	advmod
8	together	together	ADV	_	6 die	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 cut	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 cut	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux
13	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 die	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 yours	case
18	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cast	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cast	cc
21	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 die	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cast	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die a condition, not said to happen	present	we				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	die	present	we			together property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	cut off	future	I	this head of yours			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
4	cast	infinitive	we not said here	head	the ground		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ground=Destination

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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