Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 125

Majnun, however, said "How can I marry an old woman like you? how can you be Laili?

Who acts: Majnun, you · What happens: say, marry, be · To what, where: old woman, Laili · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Majnun, 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	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Majnun	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 marry	punct
7	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 marry	advmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	aux
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 marry	nsubj
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 marry	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 marry	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 Laili	advmod
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 Laili	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 Laili	nsubj
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 Laili	cop
21	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Majnun		however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry in a quote	can	Majnun	a old woman	like you	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
3	is a in a quote	can	you	Laili		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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