Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 1

At last she said to him, "Why do you never go out hunting as my sisters' husbands do every day, and every day they bring home quantities of all kinds of game?

Who acts: she, you, husbands · What happens: say, not go out, hunt, do, bring · To what, where: him, last, home quantities · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, you, husbands), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
9	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 go	advmod
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 go	advmod
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 go	xcomp
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 do	mark
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sisters	nmod:poss
18	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 husbands	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 sisters	case
20	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hunting	advcl
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bring	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bring	cc
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bring	obl:unmarked
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	nsubj
29	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 go	advcl
30	home	home	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 quantities	amod
31	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bring	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 kinds	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 kinds	det
34	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 quantities	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 game	case
36	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kinds	nmod
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	she		him = he	last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	not go out in a quote	present · do-support	you					out property	tree rules
3	hunt in a quote	gerund	you not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	present	my sisters's husbands				day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bring in a quote	present	husbands = husband	home quantities of all kinds of game			day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent quantity=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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