Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 49

Keep these bags in your own hands, and on no account let your sons get to them as long as you are alive.

Who acts: you, sons · What happens: keep, let, get, be · To what, where: bags, own hands, account, hands

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, sons), 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	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 bags	det
3	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hands	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hands	amod
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 account	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 account	det
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obl
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sons	nmod:poss
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 get	nsubj
16	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 let	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 get	obl
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 get	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 alive	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 alive	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 alive	cop
24	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 long	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	this bags		your own hands		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme in hand=Location
2	let	infinitive	you not said here			no account		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent on account=Asset
3	get	present	your sons		hands = hand		long property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to they=Result
4	is	present	you				alive property	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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