Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 20

Whenever you hear people near you, you had better bawl out so as to be heard by them: 'The wretched prince imprisoned me on the false charge of having killed his father, while it was a tiger that killed him.

Who acts: you, people, wretched prince, false charge, bawl, tiger · What happens: hear, have out, imprison, kill, be · To what, where: people, better bawl, me, false charge, father, tiger

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, people, wretched prince, false charge), 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	Whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	3 hear	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 had	advcl
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 bawl	amod
11	bawl	bawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	out	out	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	17 heard	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 heard	aux:pass
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 had	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 imprisoned	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 imprisoned	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prince	det
23	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 prince	amod
24	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 imprisoned	nsubj
25	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 imprisoned	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 charge	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 charge	det
29	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 charge	amod
30	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 imprisoned	obl
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 killed	mark
32	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 killed	aux
33	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 charge	acl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 killed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tiger	punct
37	while	while	SCONJ	_	41 tiger	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 tiger	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 tiger	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tiger	det
41	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 imprisoned	parataxis
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 killed	nsubj
43	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 tiger	acl:relcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 killed	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	you	people		near you	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2	have out	past	you	better bawl		out property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bawl=Patient
3	hear	to-infinitive · passive	people				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	imprison	past	the wretched prince	me	the false charge		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on charge=Destination
5	kill	gerund · perfect	the false charge not said here	prince's father			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
6	is a	past	bawl	a tiger			tree rules
7	kill	past	a tiger	prince			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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