Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 94
Don't whimper--be a man!"
Who acts: you · What happens: not whimper, be · To what, where: man
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 (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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 whimper | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 whimper | advmod |
| 3 | whimper | whimper | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 man | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whimper | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 whimper | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 whimper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not whimper | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | a man | 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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