Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 11
Ivan Golik perceived it, and said to him, "Wherefore dost thou weep?"
Who acts: Ivan, thou · What happens: perceive, say, weep · To what, where: weeping, Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, thou), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 2 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ivan | flat |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perceived | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weep | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wherefore | punct |
| 12 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 weep | advmod |
| 13 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 weep | aux |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 weep | nsubj |
| 15 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 weep | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Ivan | weeping | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Ivan not said here | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | weep in a quote | present · do-support | thou | wherefore property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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