Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 11
I'll go serve another master," he cried, "perhaps God will then prosper me!"
Who acts: I, master, God · What happens: go, serve, cry, prosper · To what, where: master, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, master, God), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | xcomp |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 serve | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prosper | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 prosper | punct |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 prosper | advmod |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 prosper | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 prosper | aux |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 prosper | advmod |
| 17 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 prosper | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | serve | infinitive | I not said here | another master | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | master | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | prosper | future | God | me | then | perhaps 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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