Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 94
Then Ivan Golik said to the prince, "Buy those two pike of the man, and let them go into the sea again."
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: say, buy, let, go · To what, where: prince, two pike, IVAN, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buy | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buy | punct |
| 10 | Buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 pike | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pike | nummod |
| 13 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Buy | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pike | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Buy | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buy | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ivan | the prince | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | buy in a quote | infinitive | that two pike of the man | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | IVAN | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | IVAN not said here | the sea | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location |
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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