Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 123

But me He sent to teach thee that a Tsar must have regard to the complaints of his people.

Who acts: me, Tsar, people · What happens: send, teach, have, complain · To what, where: thee, regard

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, Tsar, 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 sent	cc
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
3	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 teach	mark
6	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	xcomp
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 teach	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 have	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Tsar	det
10	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 teach	xcomp
13	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 complaints	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 complaints	det
16	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 people	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 people	nmod:poss
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 complaints	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	me			tree rules
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	me not said here	thee		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	must	a Tsar	regard	to the complaints of angel's people	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Patient
4	complain		angel's people			nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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