Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 16
Then he asked him in the most friendly manner, "Whence hath God brought thee hither, good man?"--"I am wandering through the wide world in search of the Wind," said the man. "
Who acts: man, God · What happens: ask, have, bring, wonder, say, search · To what, where: giant, friendly manner, thee, wide world, Wind · 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 (man, God), 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 | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 said | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 manner | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 manner | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 friendly | advmod |
| 8 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 manner | amod |
| 9 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hath | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hath | punct |
| 12 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 hath | advmod |
| 13 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hath | ccomp |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 13 hath | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hath | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 wandering | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 wandering | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 wandering | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wandering | aux |
| 27 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 asked | advcl |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 30 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 world | amod |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wandering | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 search | case |
| 33 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wandering | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Wind | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Wind | det |
| 36 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 search | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 man | det |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 said | nsubj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | man | giant | the friendly manner | then | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | hither, whence property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | past | God | thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present · progressive | man | the wide world | in search of the Wind | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | search in a quote | the Wind | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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