Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 122
I am your wife Laili, and I want to marry you.
Who acts: I, Laili · What happens: be, want, marry · To what, where: Laili, you
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Laili), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Laili | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Laili | cop |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Laili | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 want | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Laili | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 marry | mark |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 marry | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Laili | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Laili | your wife nmod:desc | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | present | I | Laili not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Laili not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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