Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 19

Hearken now, O Ancient, and I will tell thee!

Who acts: you, I · What happens: hearken, tell · To what, where: thee · 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, 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	Hearken	hearken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Hearken	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ancient	punct
4	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 Ancient	case
5	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hearken	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hearken	conj
11	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 tell	iobj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Hearken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hearken	imperative	you not said here				now		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		thee				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient

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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