Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 68
"I will take care of myself," said Laili; "but this man is so wicked, he may kill you again if you are near him."
Who acts: Laili, man, you · What happens: take, say, be, kill · To what, where: care, you · 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, man, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 myself | case |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wicked | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wicked | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 wicked | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wicked | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wicked | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 wicked | advmod |
| 19 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kill | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 kill | aux |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wicked | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | obj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 kill | advmod |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 him | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 him | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 him | cop |
| 29 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wicked | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | Laili | care | of Laili | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of myself=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Laili | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this man | wicked property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | may | man | you | again | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | near sleep | 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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