Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 200
Go home ere I beat thee!"--"Don't say that," replied the poor man, "but give me back my ram and my sack, and then I _will_ go."--At this the rich brother quite lost his temper, and cried to his wife and children, "Why do you stand staring like that?
Who acts: you, I, rich brother, brother · What happens: go, beat, not say, reply, give back, lose · To what, where: thee, that, poor man, ram, me, temper · 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, rich brother, 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 5 beat | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | advcl |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 beat | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 say | advmod |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 say | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 give | cc |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | back | back | ADP | _ | 24 give | compound:prt |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ram | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sack | cc |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sack | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ram | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 go | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 go | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 go | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 go | nsubj |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 go | punct |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 go | aux |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 go | punct |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 lost | punct |
| 43 | At | at | ADP | _ | 44 this | case |
| 44 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 lost | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 brother | det |
| 46 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 brother | amod |
| 47 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 lost | nsubj |
| 48 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 49 lost | advmod |
| 49 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 temper | nmod:poss |
| 51 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 lost | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 cried | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 cried | cc |
| 54 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 lost | parataxis |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 wife | case |
| 56 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 wife | nmod:poss |
| 57 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 cried | obl |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 children | cc |
| 59 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 wife | conj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 stand | punct |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 stand | punct |
| 62 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 65 stand | advmod |
| 63 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 stand | aux |
| 64 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 65 stand | nsubj |
| 65 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 cried | conj |
| 66 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 65 stand | advcl |
| 67 | like | like | ADP | _ | 68 that | case |
| 68 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 66 staring | obl |
| 69 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | home property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | beat | present | I | thee | ere property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | |||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the poor man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give back | infinitive | you not said here | my ram and my sack | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ram=Theme | |||
| 6 | go | future | I | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lose in a quote | past | the rich brother | brother's temper | this | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | brother's wife and children | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | |||||
| 9 | stand | present · do-support | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | stare | gerund | you not said here | like that | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 11 | temper in a quote | brother | nom temper «feeling 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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