Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 128
In one life a man can die but once.
Who acts: man · What happens: die
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 life | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 life | nummod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 die | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 die | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | aux |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 once | cc |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 die | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | can | a man | in one life | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in life=Attribute |
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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