--- title: That is why I have not yet paid my respects to you; pray forgive me." — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: That is why I have not yet paid my respects to you; pray forgive me." Who acts: That, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/) / 79 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 79 That is why I have not yet paid my respects to you; pray forgive me." **Who acts:** That, I · **What happens:** be, not pay, pray, forgive · **To what, where:** respects, you, me This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:18:79 # text = That is why I have not yet paid my respects to you; pray forgive me." 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 yet yet ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 respects respects NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 pray pray VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 forgive forgive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **pay** | present · perfect | I | my respects | you | | yet | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | | 3 | **pray** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **forgive** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/80/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)