Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 170
And, last of all, he took him to his gold money, and said, "There, my dear brother, is the best wheat I've got."--Then the rich brother shook his head, not once nor twice, and marvelled at the sight of so many good things, and he said, "Wherever didst thou pick up all this, my brother?"--"Oh!
Who acts: all, dear brother, I, rich brother, man · What happens: take, say, be, get, shake, marvell · To what, where: man, gold money, best wheat, head, sight, thou · 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 (all, dear brother, I, rich brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 3 | last | last | ADV | _ | 5 all | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 took | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 money | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 money | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 money | compound |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 19 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 got | expl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wheat | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brother | amod |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wheat | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brother | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wheat | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wheat | det |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 wheat | amod |
| 28 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 got | obl |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 30 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 got | aux |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 shook | punct |
| 35 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 shook | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 brother | det |
| 37 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 brother | amod |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shook | nsubj |
| 39 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 head | nmod:poss |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shook | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 once | punct |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 once | advmod |
| 44 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 39 shook | obl |
| 45 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 46 twice | cc |
| 46 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 44 once | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 marvelled | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 marvelled | cc |
| 49 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 shook | conj |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 sight | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 sight | det |
| 52 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 marvelled | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 things | case |
| 54 | so | so | ADV | _ | 55 many | advmod |
| 55 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 things | amod |
| 56 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 things | amod |
| 57 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 sight | nmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 said | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 said | cc |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 said | nsubj |
| 61 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 didst | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 didst | punct |
| 64 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 65 didst | advmod |
| 65 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 said | ccomp |
| 66 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 65 didst | obj |
| 67 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 65 didst | xcomp |
| 68 | up | up | ADP | _ | 67 pick | compound:prt |
| 69 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 70 this | det:predet |
| 70 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 67 pick | obj |
| 71 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 73 brother | punct |
| 72 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 73 brother | nmod:poss |
| 73 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 pick | obl |
| 74 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 65 didst | punct |
| 75 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 didst | punct |
| 76 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 78 Oh | punct |
| 77 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 78 Oh | punct |
| 78 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 took | discourse |
| 79 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | all | man | man's gold money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to money=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my dear brother | the best wheat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | shake | past | the rich brother | man's head | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 6 | marvell | past | the rich brother not said here | the sight of many good things | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: ask | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | do in a quote | past | thou | wherever property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | pick up in a quote | infinitive | this | my brother obl | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 10 | sight | many good things | nom sight «cognition 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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