Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 114

I can never forget the day when I owed my life to your lotus hands.

Who acts: I · What happens: not forget, owe · To what, where: life, lotus hands

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 forget	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obl:unmarked
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 owed	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 owed	nsubj
9	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	parataxis
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 owed	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 hands	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
14	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hands	compound
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 owed	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not forget	can	I				day		tree rules
2	owe	past	I	my life				to your lotus hands goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent life=Theme to hand=Goal

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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