Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 118

Dear old father Wind," cried he, "be merciful, and let me get off alive.

Who acts: Dear old father Wind, me · What happens: cry, be, let, get off · To what, where: man, me

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 (Dear old father Wind, me), 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Wind	amod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Wind	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Wind	compound
4	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Wind	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 merciful	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 merciful	punct
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 merciful	cop
12	merciful	merciful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cried	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 merciful	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 get	compound:prt
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 get	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Dear old father Wind	man		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	is	infinitive	Dear old father Wind not said here		merciful property	tree rules
3	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
4	get off	infinitive	me not said here		alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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