Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 27
And men shall hate you, and cover their heads when you appear."
Who acts: men, you · What happens: hate, cover, appear · To what, where: you, heads
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hate | cc |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hate | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hate | aux |
| 4 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cover | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cover | cc |
| 8 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hate | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cover | obj |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 appear | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 appear | nsubj |
| 13 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cover | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hate | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | shall | men | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cover | infinitive | men not said here | men's heads | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | ||||
| 3 | appear | present | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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