Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 96

"Ask not wherefore, but buy them!"

Who acts: you · What happens: not ask, buy · To what, where: IVAN

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 (you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
2	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Ask	advmod
4	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	2 Ask	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buy	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 buy	cc
7	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Ask	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask in a quote	imperative	you not said here					wherefore property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	buy in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	IVAN					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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