Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 124

Then the Jews caught him by the shoulders to cast him out and cried, "Be off, thou rascal!

Who acts: Jews, thou · What happens: catch, cast out, cry off, rascal · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jews, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 caught	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Jews	det
3	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 shoulders	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoulders	det
8	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 caught	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cast	mark
10	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 caught	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cast	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 cast	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cried	cc
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 off	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 off	punct
17	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 off	cop
18	off	off	ADP	_	14 cried	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rascal	punct
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 rascal	nsubj
21	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the Jews	man	then	by the shoulders	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	cast out	to-infinitive	the Jews not said here	man			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
3	cry off speech: express	past	the Jews not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rascal in a quote		thou				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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