Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 43

Oh, jackal," said the Rohu, "do tell me what I have inside me."

Who acts: jackal, I · What happens: say, tell, have · To what, where: me · 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 (jackal, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 jackal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 jackal	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 jackal	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rohu	det
8	Rohu	Rohu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tell	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 have	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
17	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	jackal			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive · do-support		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	present	I		inside me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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