Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 128
I beg thee tell not thy wife the truth of the matter for seven years.
Who acts: I, thee · What happens: beg, not tell · To what, where: thee, truth, wife · 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 (I, thee), 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 | 2 beg | nsubj |
| 2 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 beg | obj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | xcomp |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 truth | det |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 truth | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | I | thee | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert not said to happen | infinitive | thee not said here | the truth of the matter | thy wife | year | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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