Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 44
I do not know how I shall ever be able to repay you for your great kindness to me.
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, be, repay · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:996): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 able | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 able | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 repay | mark |
| 12 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 repay | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 kindness | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kindness | amod |
| 17 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repay | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 kindness | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | shall | I | ever | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | repay | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | for your great kindness to me | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for kindness=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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