Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 98

I cannot go back to starve and see your old father and mother die.

Who acts: I, old father · What happens: not go back, starve, see, die · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, old father), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 starve	mark
7	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 starve	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 father	amod
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mother	cc
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
15	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	not go back	can	I	tree rules
2	starve	to-infinitive	I not said here	tree rules
3	see	infinitive	I not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	die	present	your old father and mother	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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