Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 9

"No," replied the sturdy lad, "the pigeon is for my seven blind mothers, who live in the noisome dungeon, and who would die if I did not bring them food."

Who acts: sturdy lad, pigeon, seven blind mothers · What happens: reply, be, live, die, not bring · To what, where: noisome dungeon, pigeons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sturdy lad, pigeon, seven blind mothers), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
7	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lad	amod
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mothers	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mothers	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pigeon	det
12	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mothers	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mothers	cop
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 mothers	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mothers	nmod:poss
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 mothers	nummod
17	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mothers	amod
18	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lad	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 live	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 live	nsubj
21	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mothers	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 dungeon	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dungeon	det
24	noisome	noisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dungeon	amod
25	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 live	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 die	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 die	cc
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 die	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 die	aux
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 replied	conj
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 bring	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 bring	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bring	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 bring	advmod
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 die	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obj
37	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the sturdy lad				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	the pigeon			for my seven blind mothers	tree rules
3	live in a quote	present	my seven blind mothers		the noisome dungeon		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dungeon=Location
4	die in a quote	would					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · do-support	the sturdy lad = lad	pigeons = pigeon			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination food=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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