Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 27

If you would marry our sister you must first do our bidding, for you will be our younger brother."

Who acts: you, our · What happens: marry, do, be, bid · To what, where: sister, bidding

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, our), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 marry	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 do	advcl
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bidding	nmod:poss
12	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brother	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	20 brother	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 brother	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 brother	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 brother	cop
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
19	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 brother	amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry a condition, not said to happen	would	you	our sister		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
2	do	must	you	our bidding	first property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
3	is	future	you		for our younger brother	tree rules
4	bid		our			nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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