Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 13

The rhymes are to the effect that a father who gives up his wealth to his children in his own lifetime deserves to be put to death with the mallet.

Who acts: rhymes, effect, own lifetime · What happens: be, give up, deserve, put · To what, where: wealth, children

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rhymes, effect, own lifetime), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rhymes	det
2	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 effect	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 effect	cop
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 effect	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 effect	det
6	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 father	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 father	det
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 effect	advcl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gives	nsubj
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 effect	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 gives	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wealth	nmod:poss
14	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 children	nmod:poss
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gives	obl
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 deserves	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lifetime	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lifetime	amod
21	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 deserves	nsubj
22	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gives	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	25 put	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 put	aux:pass
25	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 deserves	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 death	case
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 mallet	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mallet	det
30	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 effect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the rhymes			to the effect	tree rules
2	give up	present	the effect	opinion's wealth	opinion's children		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme to child=Recipient
3	deserve	present	opinion's own lifetime				tree rules
4	put	to-infinitive · passive	opinion's own lifetime not said here			to death; with the mallet	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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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