Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 94
My poor brother is dead and gone; and this is his corpse.
Who acts: poor brother, this · What happens: be · 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 (poor brother, this), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gone | cc |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dead | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 corpse | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 corpse | cc |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 corpse | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 corpse | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 corpse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My poor brother | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | My poor brother not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | brother's corpse | 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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