Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 193
Perchance thou hast watered them with foul water, so that their blood is stagnant, and their flesh inflamed?"--"The murrain take 'em if I know thy meaning!" cried the poor brother. "
Who acts: thou, Perchance, blood, flesh, murrain, I · What happens: have, water, be, inflame, take, know · To what, where: Perchance, oxen, 'em, meaning, poor brother
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 (thou, Perchance, blood, flesh), 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 | Perchance | perchance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watered | nsubj |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 hast | nsubj |
| 3 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Perchance | acl:relcl |
| 4 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watered | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stagnant | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 stagnant | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stagnant | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stagnant | cop |
| 15 | stagnant | stagnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 watered | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inflamed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 inflamed | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 19 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inflamed | nsubj |
| 20 | inflamed | inflame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 watered | parataxis |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 inflamed | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 inflamed | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 murrain | det |
| 26 | murrain | murrain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | nsubj |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 watered | parataxis |
| 28 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 take | obj |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 know | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 take | advcl |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 33 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 know | obj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 36 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watered | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 brother | det |
| 38 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 brother | amod |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cried | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watered | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 watered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | thou | Perchance not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perchance=Patient | ||||
| 2 | water | past | Perchance | oxen = ox | with foul water | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | oxen's blood | stagnant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inflame | participle | oxen's flesh | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | the murrain | 'em = they | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | I | thy meaning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Perchance not said here | the poor brother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | mean | thy | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=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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