Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 158
That cannot be, and I must die.
Who acts: That · What happens: not be
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 die | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 die | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 die | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 die | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 die | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 die | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 die | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 die | aux |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | must | That | die property | 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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