Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 127
If you killed me you would be sorry afterwards, like that man who killed his dog."
Who acts: you, man · What happens: kill, be · To what, where: me, dog
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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 killed | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sorry | cop |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 killed | ccomp |
| 9 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 8 sorry | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 killed | nsubj |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dog | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | you | me | like that man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | would | you | afterwards, sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | that man | man's dog | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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