Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 66
"Why should you, my children, thus trouble these poor subjects of Ujjaini?
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 you | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trouble | punct |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 trouble | advmod |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 you | conj |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 subjects | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 subjects | amod |
| 13 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trouble | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ujjaini | case |
| 15 | Ujjaini | Ujjaini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 subjects | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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