Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 37

Nearly all the young men of the place have thus perished, and our son will be called on soon.

What happens: perish, call on · To what, where: young men, son

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: 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	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 men	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 perished	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 perished	aux
10	thus	thus	ADV	_	11 perished	advmod
11	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	nsubj:pass
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 perished	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 called	compound:prt
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 called	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 perished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	present · perfect · passive		all young men of the place				thus property	tree rules
2	call on speech: assert	future · passive		our son				soon property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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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