Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 95
Care you not whether they curse me and I die?
Who acts: you, parents, I · What happens: not care, curse, die · To what, where: you, me
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, parents, 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 | Care | care | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Care | obj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Care | advmod |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 curse | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 curse | nsubj |
| 6 | curse | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Care | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 curse | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 die | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 die | nsubj |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 curse | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | imperative | you not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curse | present | parents = parent | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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