Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 141

Your wives made you kill them because of me.

Who acts: wives, you · What happens: make, kill · To what, where: you, children

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 (wives, you), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wives	nmod:poss
2	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 me	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Your wives	you					tree rules
2	kill	infinitive	you not said here	children = child				because me	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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