Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 159
Before death comes let me think of my faithful brute friends."
Who acts: death, me · What happens: come, let, think · To what, where: me
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 (death, me), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 death | case |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friends | amod |
| 10 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friends | compound |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 think | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | death | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | death not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | infinitive | me not said here | of my faithful brute friends | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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