Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 96
So he went to this same inn and passed the night there, and, on the morrow, he called the innkeeper, and said to him, "Look now! the first time I dip my head in the water, beat me about the back with this chain as hard as thou canst."
Who acts: innkeeper · What happens: go, pass, call, say, look, dip · To what, where: same inn, innkeeper, morrow, head, water · 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 (innkeeper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 inn | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 inn | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 inn | amod |
| 7 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 passed | cc |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 passed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 morrow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morrow | det |
| 18 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 morrow | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 innkeeper | det |
| 23 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Look | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Look | punct |
| 31 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 Look | advmod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 time | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 35 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 time | amod |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Look | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 dip | nsubj |
| 38 | dip | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 time | acl:relcl |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dip | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 water | det |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dip | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 beat | punct |
| 45 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 Look | parataxis |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 beat | obj |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 49 back | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 back | det |
| 49 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 beat | obl |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 chain | case |
| 51 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 chain | det |
| 52 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 beat | obl |
| 53 | as | as | ADV | _ | 54 hard | advmod |
| 54 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 beat | advmod |
| 55 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 57 canst | mark |
| 56 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 57 canst | nsubj |
| 57 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 54 hard | advcl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | innkeeper | this same inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | innkeeper not said here | there | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | call | past | innkeeper | the innkeeper | the morrow | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent innkeeper=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | innkeeper not said here | innkeeper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | now; time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | dip in a quote | present | innkeeper | my head | the water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | beat in a quote | infinitive | innkeeper | about the back; with this chain; hard property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with chain=Instrument |
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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