Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 159

Sit down, my brother, and tell us why thou hast come hither."--"Thanks, my brother, I do not want to sit down.

Who acts: you, thou, I · What happens: sit down, tell, come, not want · To what, where: brother, us · 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 (you, 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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 come	advmod
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 come	nsubj
12	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	ccomp
14	hither	hither	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 Thanks	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Thanks	punct
19	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brother	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brother	nmod:poss
22	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Thanks	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 want	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 want	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 want	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 want	advmod
27	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sit	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sit	mark
29	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 want	xcomp
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 sit	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here	my brother		Thanks and my brother obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come	present	thou			hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not want	present · do-support	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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