Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 118
Bring back my wife, and I shall live."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring back, live · To what, where: 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, I), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Bring | advmod |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 live | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 live | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | imperative | you not said here | my wife | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 2 | live | shall | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/118/