Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 4

I'll tell you a _kazka_[2] of Oh, the Tsar of the Forest, that you may know what manner of being he was.

Who acts: I, you, manner · What happens: tell, know, be · To what, where: kazka, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, you, manner), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kazka	det
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 kazka	punct
7	kazka	kazka	X	Foreign=Yes	3 tell	obj
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 2	punct
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	10 2	punct
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 kazka	flat
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 2	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 Tsar	case
13	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 Tsar	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Oh	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tsar	det
16	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 2	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Forest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Forest	det
19	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Tsar	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 know	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
25	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	26 manner	det
26	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 was	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 he	case
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 he	cop
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 manner	nmod
30	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 know	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	a kazka	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kazka=Topic
2	know	may	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	gerund				of he	tree rules
4	be	past	what manner				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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