Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 36

Pride goeth before a Fall

What happens: pride, go · To what, where: Fall

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. 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	Pride	pride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 goeth	nsubj
2	goeth	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 Fall	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Fall	det
5	Fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goeth	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pride	infinitive							tree rules
2	go	present				a Fall			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fall=Location

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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