Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 104
Why, we've nothing to eat ourselves, and thou dost saddle us with a ram besides.
Who acts: thou, ram · What happens: eat, do, saddle, beside · To what, where: ourselves, us
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, ram), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 've | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 've | nsubj |
| 4 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 've | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nothing | acl |
| 8 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dost | cc |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 dost | nsubj |
| 12 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 've | conj |
| 13 | saddle | saddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dost | xcomp |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saddle | obj |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 besides | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ram | det |
| 17 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 besides | nsubj |
| 18 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 saddle | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | to-infinitive | ourselves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient | |||||
| 2 | do | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | saddle | infinitive | thou not said here | us | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Destination | ||||
| 4 | beside | present | a ram | tree rules |
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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