Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 156
Perhaps without anything to sustain life I may drag on my existence for a day or two.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: sustain, drag, exist · To what, where: life, existence
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, my), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 anything | advmod |
| 2 | without | without | ADP | _ | 3 anything | case |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sustain | mark |
| 5 | sustain | sustain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 anything | acl |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sustain | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 drag | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drag | aux |
| 9 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 anything | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 existence | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 existence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drag | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drag | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 two | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 anything | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sustain | to-infinitive | life | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drag | may | I | my existence | day | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on existence=Location | |||
| 3 | exist | my | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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