Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 97

Whilst I gave milk they fed me on cotton-seed and oil-cake, but now I am dry they yoke me here, and give me refuse as fodder!"

Who acts: I, milk, cattle, you · What happens: give, feed, be, yoke, refuse · To what, where: me, cotton seed

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, milk, cattle, 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	3 gave	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 give	advcl
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	nsubj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fed	nsubj
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fed	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 seed	case
9	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seed	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 cotton	punct
11	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cake	cc
13	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cake	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 oil	punct
15	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 yoke	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 yoke	cc
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 dry	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 dry	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dry	cop
21	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 yoke	xcomp
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 yoke	nsubj
23	yoke	yoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 yoke	obj
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 yoke	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 give	cc
28	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 give	xcomp
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 fodder	case
32	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 refuse	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	I					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	feed	past	milk	me	cotton seed and oil cake			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is	present	I			now	dry property	tree rules
4	yoke	present	cattle	me	here			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Destination
5	give	imperative	you not said here	me				tree rules
6	refuse	infinitive	you not said here				as fodder	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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