Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 46

He says whoever wishes to marry his daughter must first do whatever he bids him.

Who acts: son, whoever, daughter · What happens: say, wish, marry, do, bid · To what, where: whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, whoever, daughter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wishes	nsubj
4	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wishes	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 marry	ccomp
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 bids	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bids	nsubj
14	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 do	ccomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bids	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish	present	whoever			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	whoever not said here			tree rules
4	do	must	son's daughter		first property	tree rules
5	bid	present	son	whatever		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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