Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 47
"Well," said Laili, "it is better that you should be killed than I, for if I were to be killed a second time, Khuda would not give me my life again; but I can bring you to life if you are killed."
Who acts: Laili, Khuda · What happens: say, be, kill, not give, bring · To what, where: you, Laili, life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Laili, Khuda), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 better | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 better | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 better | expl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 better | cop |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 killed | aux:pass |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 give | advcl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 I | case |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 killed | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 killed | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 killed | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 killed | aux:pass |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 killed | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 killed | aux:pass |
| 26 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 killed | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 31 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 give | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 give | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 give | advmod |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 better | parataxis |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 give | advmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 bring | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 bring | cc |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 bring | nsubj |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 bring | aux |
| 43 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 bring | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 life | case |
| 46 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bring | obl |
| 47 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 killed | mark |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 killed | aux:pass |
| 50 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 bring | advcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 bring | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Laili | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | should · passive | you | than Laili | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · passive | Laili | time | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not give in a quote | would | Khuda | my life | Laili | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=Theme | ||
| 6 | bring in a quote | can | Laili | you | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=Destination | |||
| 7 | kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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