Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 124

But Khuda gave me my life again, and brought me here, after I had stayed a long, long while in the jungle crying for you, and now I am obliged to be a little dog; but if you will marry me, I shall not be a little dog any more."

Who acts: Khuda, I, jungle, you · What happens: give, bring, stay, cry, oblige, be · To what, where: life, me, I, little dog

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 (Khuda, I, jungle, you), 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 gave	cc
2	Khuda	Khuda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 brought	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stayed	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 stayed	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stayed	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stayed	aux
17	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 brought	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 long	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stayed	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 long	punct
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 long	conj
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 jungle	mark
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 jungle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 jungle	det
25	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 long	advcl
26	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 jungle	acl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 crying	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 obliged	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 obliged	cc
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 obliged	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 obliged	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 obliged	aux:pass
34	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 jungle	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	39 dog	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 dog	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 dog	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dog	amod
39	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 obliged	advcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 marry	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 marry	cc
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 marry	mark
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 marry	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 marry	aux
45	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	conj
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 marry	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 dog	punct
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 dog	nsubj
49	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 dog	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 dog	advmod
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 dog	cop
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 dog	det
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 dog	amod
54	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 marry	conj
55	any	any	ADV	_	56 more	advmod
56	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	54 dog	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Khuda	my life	me		again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=Theme
2	bring	past	Khuda not said here		me	here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	stay	past · perfect	I					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the jungle not said here					for you	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for you=Recipient
5	oblige	present · passive		I			now		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	is a	to-infinitive		a little dog					tree rules
7	marry a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
8	not is a	shall	I	a little dog					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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