Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 100

Give me this child to wife; and if you will vow, by all you hold sacred, never again to play chaupur for another's head, I will spare yours now!"

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, vow, hold, play, spare · To what, where: child, me, chaupur, yours

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wife	mark
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 vow	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 vow	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 vow	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 vow	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 vow	aux
12	vow	vow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 all	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 vow	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 hold	nsubj
17	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 all	acl:relcl
18	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hold	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 play	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 again	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	23 play	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 play	mark
23	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vow	conj
24	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 head	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 head	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 another	case
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spare	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 spare	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 spare	aux
32	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vow	conj
33	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 spare	obj
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 spare	advmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	this child	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme
2	vow a condition, not said to happen	future	you				by all	tree rules
3	hold	present	you				sacred property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	to-infinitive	you not said here	chaupur		again	for another's head	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme for head=Eventuality
5	spare	future	I	yours		now		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent your=Asset

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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