Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 100

Here am I, useful to everybody, yet all, rich and poor, great and small, trample on me as they go past, giving me nothing but the ashes of their pipes and the husks of their grain!"

Who acts: I, cattle · What happens: be, go past, give · To what, where: nothing, me

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cattle), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 useful	advmod
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Here	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 everybody	case
7	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 useful	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rich	punct
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	12 rich	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 rich	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rich	punct
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 useful	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 poor	cc
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rich	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 great	punct
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rich	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 small	cc
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 useful	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trample	punct
20	trample	trample	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 trample	nmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 go	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
25	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	advcl
26	past	past	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 giving	punct
28	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 useful	parataxis
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 giving	iobj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 giving	obj
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 ashes	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ashes	det
33	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 nothing	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 pipes	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 pipes	nmod:poss
36	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ashes	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 husks	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 husks	det
39	husks	husk	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 nothing	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 grain	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 grain	nmod:poss
42	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 husks	nmod
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 giving	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 useful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			here property	tree rules
2	go past	present	cattle			past property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	gerund		nothing	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nothing=Theme

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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