Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 21

My sins and offences have been very many, so I have come and am lying here that men may pass over me, and perchance my sins may be forgiven me, and God may be merciful, and I may have a son."

Who acts: sins, I, men, God · What happens: be, come, lie, pass, forgive, have · To what, where: perchance, son

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sins, I, men, God), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sins	nmod:poss
2	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 many	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 offences	cc
4	offences	offence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sins	conj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 many	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 many	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 many	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lying	cc
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lying	aux
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 come	conj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 lying	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 pass	mark
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pass	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 pass	aux
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lying	advcl
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 pass	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forgiven	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 forgiven	cc
26	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forgiven	nsubj:pass
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sins	nmod:poss
28	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 perchance	obj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 forgiven	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 forgiven	aux:pass
31	forgiven	forgive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 many	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 forgiven	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 merciful	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 merciful	cc
35	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 merciful	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 merciful	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 merciful	cop
38	merciful	merciful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 many	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 have	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 many	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 son	det
45	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 many	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 many	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	My sins and offences			many property	tree rules
2	come	present · perfect	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	present · progressive	I not said here		here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pass	may	men			over me	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over i=Location
5	forgive	may · passive		perchance			tree rules
6	is	may	God			merciful property	tree rules
7	have	may	I	a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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