Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 29

But the people said to him, "Listen now! thou that art so unlucky, why dost thou not go to the Tsar?

Who acts: people · What happens: say, listen, do, not go · To what, where: God, thou, Tsar · 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 (people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Listen	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Listen	punct
9	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 art	nsubj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 Listen	advmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Listen	punct
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 art	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 art	nsubj
14	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 unlucky	advmod
16	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 art	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dost	punct
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 dost	advmod
19	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 dost	obj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dost	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Tsar	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Tsar	det
25	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the people		God			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	listen in a quote	infinitive					now	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	present	the people not said here	thou				tree rules
4	not go in a quote	infinitive	the people not said here			the Tsar		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tsar=Initial_Location

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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