Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 138

This was carrying a joke too far, so he cried to his henchmen, "Henchmen, henchmen! out of the drum, and teach my wife to respect her husband!"

Who acts: This, man · What happens: carry, cry, teach, respect · To what, where: joke, henchmen, drum, wife, husband · 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 (This, man), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 carrying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carrying	aux
3	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 carrying	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 cried	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carrying	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 henchmen	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 henchmen	nmod:poss
14	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Henchmen	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Henchmen	punct
17	Henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 henchmen	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 henchmen	punct
19	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 henchmen	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 henchmen	punct
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 drum	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 drum	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 drum	det
24	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 teach	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 teach	cc
27	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 teach	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 respect	mark
31	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 teach	xcomp
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 husband	nmod:poss
33	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 respect	obj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 carrying	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 carrying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past · progressive	This	a joke			far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	man		man's henchmen and Henchmen and henchmen	the drum		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to henchman=Recipient
3	teach speech: other in a quote	infinitive	man not said here		my wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
4	respect in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	wife's husband				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus

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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