Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 4
The poor man protested, but the rich man would not listen, but said to him, "If thou wilt not believe me, then, poor man, come into the field quite early to-morrow morning, before dawn, and God shall judge betwixt us."
Who acts: poor man, rich man, thou, God · What happens: protest, not listen, say, not believe, come, judge · To what, where: God, poor man, field, betwixt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, rich man, thou, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 protested | nsubj |
| 4 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 listen | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 listen | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 listen | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 listen | advmod |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 protested | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 protested | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 20 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 believe | mark |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 believe | nsubj |
| 22 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 24 believe | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 believe | advmod |
| 24 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 believe | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 man | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 man | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 man | punct |
| 29 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 believe | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 come | punct |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 believe | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 field | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 field | det |
| 35 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obl |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 early | advmod |
| 37 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 come | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 morning | case |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 to | punct |
| 40 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 morning | compound |
| 41 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 early | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dawn | punct |
| 43 | before | before | ADP | _ | 44 dawn | case |
| 44 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 judge | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 judge | cc |
| 47 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 judge | nsubj |
| 48 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 judge | aux |
| 49 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 protested | parataxis |
| 50 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 judge | obj |
| 51 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 betwixt | nsubj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 judge | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 protested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protest speech: disagree | past | the poor man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not listen | would | the rich man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not believe a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | thou | the poor man = man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | the field | dawn | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | judge in a quote | shall | God | betwixt | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent betwixt=Value |
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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