Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 86
"Nay, my friend," replied the Brahman mildly, "you would probably eat me if I did."
Who acts: friend, you · What happens: reply, eat, do · To what, where: Brahman, friend · 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 (friend, 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 | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 friend | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Brahman | det |
| 10 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | mildly | mildly | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 eat | aux |
| 16 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 17 eat | advmod |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 did | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eat | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | my friend | the Brahman | mildly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | would | you | my friend = friend | probably property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | my friend = friend | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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