Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 138

I wish you were my son," he said; "but as I never had a child, you cannot be my son." "

Who acts: I, you, King · What happens: wish, be, say, not have, not be · To what, where: son, child · 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 (I, you, King), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 son	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	cop
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wish	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 son	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 had	advmod
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 son	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 son	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 son	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 son	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 son	cop
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wish	present	I		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	past	you	my son	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not have	past	I	a child	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	not is a	can	you	my son	tree rules

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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