Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 61
The bald man said, "If I throw you, you shall be my slave; and if you throw me, I will be your slave."
Who acts: bald man, you · What happens: say, throw, be · To what, where: you, slave, bald man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bald man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slave | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 slave | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 throw | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 throw | nsubj |
| 9 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 slave | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 throw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 throw | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 slave | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 slave | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 slave | cop |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 slave | nmod:poss |
| 16 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 slave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 slave | cc |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 throw | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 throw | nsubj |
| 21 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 slave | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 throw | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 throw | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 slave | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 slave | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 slave | cop |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 slave | nmod:poss |
| 28 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 slave | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 slave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the bald man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the bald man = man | you | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | you | my slave | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | throw a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the bald man = man | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | future | the bald man = man | your slave | 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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