Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 53

I beg you, as your bosom friend, never assist that wretched man, though he is your relation as a human being.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: beg, not assist, be · To what, where: you, wretched man, relation

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, man), 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	2 beg	nsubj
2	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 beg	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 friend	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 friend	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
7	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 friend	compound
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beg	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 assist	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 assist	advmod
11	assist	assist	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 beg	conj
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 man	det
13	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assist	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 relation	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 relation	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 relation	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 relation	cop
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 relation	nmod:poss
20	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assist	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 human	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 human	det
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 relation	acl
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 human	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	I		you	as your bosom friend	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	not assist	infinitive	I not said here		that wretched man		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary
3	is a	present	man	your relation			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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