Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 38

However, he did not die for several years afterwards; and miserable years many of them were.

Who acts: son, miserable years · What happens: not die, be

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 (son, miserable years), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 die	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 die	advmod
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 years	amod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	obl
10	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 die	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 were	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 years	cc
13	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 were	nsubj
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 many	nmod
18	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 die	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die	past · do-support	son				year	afterwards, however property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	be	past	miserable years						vn exist-47.1 «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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