Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 23
God hath sent me down on earth to protect thee!"
Who acts: God · What happens: have, send down, protect · To what, where: me, earth, thee
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 (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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hath | nsubj |
| 2 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hath | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 protect | mark |
| 9 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 protect | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | God | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send down | past | God not said here | me | earth | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | God not said here | thee | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary |
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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