Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 74
Golik listened to the prince, and said, "Now thou knowest, I suppose, why I took up those pieces of the broken bow, for I could see what was coming.
Who acts: Golik, thou, I · What happens: listen, say, know, suppose, take up, break · To what, where: pieces · 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 (Golik, thou, I), 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 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knowest | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 knowest | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 knowest | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 knowest | nsubj |
| 13 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 suppose | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 suppose | nsubj |
| 16 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 knowest | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 why | punct |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 took | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 suppose | ccomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 took | compound:prt |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 pieces | det |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 took | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 bow | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bow | det |
| 26 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bow | amod |
| 27 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pieces | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 see | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 see | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 took | conj |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 coming | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 coming | aux |
| 35 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 see | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Golik | to the prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | thou | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | suppose in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take up in a quote | past | I | that pieces of the broken bow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 6 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | see in a quote | could | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | come in a quote | past · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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