Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 96

If I leave it anywhere else the devils may snatch it away when I am absent worshipping you; after finishing the rites I shall burn him."

Who acts: I, devils · What happens: leave, snatch away, be, worshipp, finish, burn · To what, where: road, you, rites, brother

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 (I, devils), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 leave	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 snatch	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 leave	advmod
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 anywhere	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 devils	det
8	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 snatch	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 snatch	aux
10	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 snatch	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 snatch	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 absent	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 absent	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 absent	cop
16	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snatch	conj
17	worshipping	worshipp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 absent	csubj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 worshipping	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 burn	punct
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 finishing	mark
21	finishing	finish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 burn	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rites	det
23	rites	rite	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 finishing	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 burn	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 burn	aux
26	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 snatch	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 burn	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 snatch	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 snatch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave a condition, not said to happen	present	I	road	anywhere property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	snatch away	may	the devils	road	away property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	present	I		absent property	tree rules
4	worshipp	gerund		you		tree rules
5	finish	gerund	I not said here	the rites		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rite=Eventuality
6	burn	shall	I	brother		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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