Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 3
And, now I am dead, Sins, heavy as lead, Will give me no rest in my grave!"
Who acts: I · What happens: be, give · To what, where: rest, me, grave
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dead | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dead | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 give | csubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sins | punct |
| 8 | Sins | Sin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 dead | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heavy | punct |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Sins | amod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 lead | case |
| 12 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heavy | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
| 14 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 grave | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 grave | nmod:poss |
| 21 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | now | Sins obl; dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | future | no rest | me | my grave | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rest=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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