Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 6

I will slay the dog ere he reaches the threshold, and say that another must have slain it.

Who acts: I, dog, friend · What happens: slay, ere, reach, say · To what, where: threshold, another · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, dog, friend), 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	3 slay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 slay	aux
3	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ere	nsubj
6	ere	ere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slay	ccomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reaches	nsubj
8	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ere	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 threshold	det
10	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reaches	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 slay	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 slain	mark
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 slain	nsubj:pass
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 slain	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 slain	aux
18	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 say	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 slain	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	slay	future	I		tree rules
2	ere	past	the dog		tree rules
3	reach	present	friend	the threshold	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent threshold=Theme
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	slay	must · perfect · passive		another	tree rules

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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