Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 8

Besides, my wife is very sad, for her six sisters' husbands all hunt every day, and bring home quantities of game, and their wives therefore are very proud of them.

Who acts: wife, sad husbands, wives · What happens: be, hunt, bring · To what, where: home quantities

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 (wife, sad husbands, wives), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	7 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 husbands	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 husbands	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	14 husbands	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sisters	nmod:poss
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sisters	nummod
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 husbands	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 sisters	case
14	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunt	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 hunt	nsubj
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hunt	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bring	cc
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hunt	conj
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 quantities	compound
23	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bring	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 game	case
25	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 quantities	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 proud	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 proud	cc
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wives	nmod:poss
29	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 proud	nsubj
30	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	29 wives	advmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 proud	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 proud	advmod
33	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hunt	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 proud	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	my wife			sad property	tree rules
2	hunt	present	wife's six sisters's sad husbands		day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring	infinitive	wife's six sisters's sad husbands not said here	home quantities of game			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
4	is	present	husbands's wives			of husbands = husband; proud property	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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