Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 36

The king of this country has a daughter whom he is obliged to marry every day, because all her husbands die the first night of their stay with her.

Who acts: king, husbands · What happens: have, oblige, marry, die, stay · To what, where: daughter, king

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, husbands), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	nmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 obliged	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 obliged	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 obliged	aux:pass
12	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 daughter	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 marry	mark
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 obliged	xcomp
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marry	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 die	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 die	mark
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 husbands	det:predet
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husbands	nmod:poss
21	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 die	nsubj
22	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 marry	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 night	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 night	amod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 die	obl:unmarked
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 stay	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 stay	nmod:poss
28	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 night	nmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stay	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the king of this country	a daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	oblige	present · passive		king			tree rules
3	marry	to-infinitive			day		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	die	present	reason's husbands		night		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	stay		husbands = husband			with reason	nom stay «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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