Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 93

Don't I give shade and shelter to every one who passes by, and don't they in return tear down my branches to feed their cattle?

Who acts: I, one, shade · What happens: not do, give, pass by, do, not tear down, feed · To what, where: shade, one, branches, return, cattle

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, one, shade), 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	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	advcl
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shelter	cc
7	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shade	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 passes	nsubj
12	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 passes	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 do	cc
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 tear	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tear	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 return	case
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tear	obl
21	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	advcl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 tear	compound:prt
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 branches	nmod:poss
24	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tear	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 feed	mark
26	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tear	advcl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cattle	nmod:poss
28	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feed	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	I not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	I	shade and shelter	every one		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shade=Theme to one=Recipient
3	pass by	present	every one				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	infinitive	I not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not tear down	present	shade	my branches		return	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location branch=Theme
6	feed	to-infinitive	shade not said here		shade's cattle		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Recipient

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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