Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 38
Thou shalt come back for him when a year has run, and if thou dost know him again, thou mayst take him; but if thou dost not know him again, he shall serve another year with me."--"Good!" cried the man.
Who acts: Thou, last · What happens: come back, run, know, take, not know, serve · To what, where: last, man
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, last), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 run | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | aux |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 come | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 take | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 know | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 take | nsubj |
| 22 | mayst | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 serve | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 serve | cc |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 know | mark |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 know | nsubj |
| 29 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 know | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 know | advmod |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 serve | advcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 know | obj |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 know | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 serve | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 serve | aux |
| 37 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 take | parataxis |
| 38 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 year | det |
| 39 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 serve | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 me | case |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 serve | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 44 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 cried | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 Good | punct |
| 46 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 cried | parataxis |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 46 Good | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 Good | punct |
| 49 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 man | det |
| 51 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 cried | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | shall | Thou | for last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | present · perfect | Thou not said here | year | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | thou | last | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | take | may | thou | last | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | not know a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | thou | last | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | serve | shall | last | year | with me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=Theme | |||
| 7 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | thou not said here | the man | 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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