Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 29
If you assist me now you will find a sure help in me throughout your life.
Who acts: you · What happens: assist, find · To what, where: me, sure help
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 assist | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 assist | nsubj |
| 3 | assist | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 assist | obj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 assist | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 help | det |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 help | amod |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nmod |
| 14 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assist a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | now | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | find | future | you | a sure help | throughout your life | in me | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Topic |
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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