Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 116

Give us one month, and we will go and try to recover your wife and house."

Who acts: you, we · What happens: give, go, try, recover · To what, where: us, wife

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 month	nummod
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 go	cc
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 try	cc
11	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 go	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 recover	mark
13	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	xcomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 recover	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 house	cc
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wife	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		us	month	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	go	future	we				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	infinitive	we not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	recover not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	your wife and house			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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