Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 105

You are unable even to return my brother's corpse."

Who acts: You · What happens: be, return · To what, where: corpse

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 unable	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unable	cop
3	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	6 return	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 return	mark
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unable	xcomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 corpse	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 brother	case
10	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unable	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 unable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					unable property	tree rules
2	return	to-infinitive	You not said here	my brother's corpse					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme

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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