Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 183
I'll give thee for it six yoke of oxen, and a plough, and a harrow, and a hay-fork, and I'll give thee besides, lots of corn to sow, thus thou wilt have plenty, but give me the ram and the sack."
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: give, sow, have · To what, where: thee, besides, plenty, ram, me
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 yoke | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 yoke | nsubj |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 yoke | nummod |
| 8 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 oxen | case |
| 10 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 yoke | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 plough | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 plough | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 plough | det |
| 14 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 harrow | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 harrow | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 harrow | det |
| 18 | harrow | harrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plough | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fork | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fork | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fork | det |
| 22 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fork | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 hay | punct |
| 24 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plough | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 give | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 give | nsubj |
| 28 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | aux |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 30 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 give | iobj |
| 31 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 give | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lots | punct |
| 33 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 besides | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 corn | case |
| 35 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lots | nmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 sow | mark |
| 37 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 besides | acl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 39 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 42 have | advmod |
| 40 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 have | nsubj |
| 41 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 give | conj |
| 43 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 have | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 give | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 give | cc |
| 46 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 give | iobj |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ram | det |
| 49 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 give | obj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 sack | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 sack | det |
| 52 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 ram | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | thee | for six yoke of oxen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for yoke=Asset | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | besides and lots of corn | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient beside=Theme | |||
| 3 | sow | to-infinitive | I not said here | besides and lots of corn not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | future | thou | plenty | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 5 | give | infinitive | I not said here | the ram and the sack | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ram=Theme |
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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