Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 53
Why should you leave your home and country to be with me?"
Who acts: you · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: home
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 leave | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 home | nmod:poss |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 country | cc |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 home | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 me | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 me | cop |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | should | you | your home and country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | with me | 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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