Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 48

You must pretend that I came to discharge a long-standing debt with you, and that you are several thousands of rupees richer than you thought you were.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: pretend, come, discharge, stand, be, think · To what, where: long standing debt, several thousands, you

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 (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pretend	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pretend	aux
3	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretend	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 discharge	mark
8	discharge	discharge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 debt	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 debt	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
12	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 debt	amod
13	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discharge	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 debt	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thousands	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thousands	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 thousands	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 thousands	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thousands	cop
21	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thousands	amod
22	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pretend	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 rupees	case
24	rupees	rupee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thousands	nmod
25	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 thousands	conj
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 thought	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 richer	advcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 thought	obj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thousands	cop
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pretend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	must	You			tree rules
2	come	past	I			tree rules
3	discharge	to-infinitive	I not said here	a long standing debt	with you	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme
4	stand	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	you	several thousands	of rupees	tree rules
6	be		you not said here			tree rules
7	think speech: other	past	you	you		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=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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