Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 2
But whatever gold is in your possession you must give back to me."
Who acts: whatever, you · What happens: be, give back · To what, where: possession, me
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 (whatever, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 possession | cc |
| 2 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 possession | nsubj |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 possession | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 possession | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 possession | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 possession | nmod:poss |
| 7 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 possession | acl:relcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 give | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 possession | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 possession | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | whatever | your possession | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give back | must | you | your possession not said here | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent possession=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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