Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 195

Give me back my sack and my ram, I say, and take back thy oxen, for they won't listen to me!"--"What! take them back!" roared the rich brother. "

Who acts: you, I, oxen · What happens: give back, say, take back, not listen, roar · To what, where: sack, me, oxen, rich brother · 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, oxen), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	back	back	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sack	nmod:poss
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ram	cc
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ram	nmod:poss
8	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sack	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	ccomp
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 take	advmod
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 oxen	nmod:poss
17	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 listen	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 listen	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 listen	nsubj
21	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 listen	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 listen	advmod
23	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 listen	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
30	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 take	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
32	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 take	obj
34	back	back	ADV	_	32 take	advmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
37	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 brother	det
39	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 brother	amod
40	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 roared	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	my sack and my ram	me	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sack=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take back	infinitive		thy oxen		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
4	not listen	future	oxen = ox		me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
5	take back	infinitive	you not said here	oxen = ox		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme they=Destination
6	roar in a quote	past	you not said here	the rich brother		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=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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