Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 65

All the army I want is a couple of Cossacks, but they must be picked men."

Who acts: I, army, couple · What happens: want, be, pick · To what, where: army, couple, picked men

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, army, couple), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 army	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 army	det
3	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 couple	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 army	acl:relcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 couple	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 couple	det
8	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Cossacks	case
10	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 couple	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 men	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 men	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 men	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 men	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 men	cop
16	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 couple	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 couple	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 couple	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	all army not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot army=Theme
2	is a	present	all army	a couple but picked men	of Cossacks	tree rules
3	pick	participle				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	must	couple	picked men		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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