Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 79
That is why I have not yet paid my respects to you; pray forgive me."
Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, not pay, pray, forgive · To what, where: respects, you, me
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 (That, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 paid | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 paid | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 paid | advmod |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 paid | advmod |
| 8 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 respects | nmod:poss |
| 10 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 paid | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 paid | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pray | punct |
| 14 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 paid | parataxis |
| 15 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pray | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 forgive | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 paid | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pay | present · perfect | I | my respects | you | yet | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | ||
| 3 | pray | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | forgive | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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