Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 202

This, however, was something beyond a joke, so the poor brother called to his henchmen, "Henchmen, henchmen! out of the drum, and give this brother of mine and his wife a sound drubbing, that they may think twice about it another time before they pitch a poor brother out of their hut!"

Who acts: This, henchmen · What happens: be, call, give, think, pitch · To what, where: something, poor brother, henchmen, brother, hut · 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 (This, henchmen), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 something	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 something	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	6 something	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 something	cop
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	9 joke	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brother	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 brother	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brother	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brother	amod
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	conj
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 brother	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 henchmen	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 henchmen	nmod:poss
18	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 called	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Henchmen	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Henchmen	punct
21	Henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 something	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 henchmen	punct
23	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Henchmen	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Henchmen	punct
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 drum	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 drum	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 drum	det
28	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Henchmen	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 give	cc
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	parataxis
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 brother	det
33	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 mine	case
35	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brother	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wife	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wife	nmod:poss
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mine	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 drubbing	det
40	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drubbing	compound
41	drubbing	drubbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wife	appos
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 think	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 think	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 think	nsubj
45	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 think	aux
46	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 give	conj
47	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	46 think	advmod
48	about	about	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 think	obl
50	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	51 time	det
51	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 think	obl:unmarked
52	before	before	SCONJ	_	54 pitch	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 pitch	nsubj
54	pitch	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 think	advcl
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 brother	det
56	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 brother	amod
57	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 pitch	obj
58	out	out	ADP	_	61 hut	case
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 hut	case
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 hut	nmod:poss
61	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 pitch	obl
62	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	something				beyond a joke; however property	tree rules
2	call	participle		the poor brother not said here	brother's henchmen				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to henchman=Recipient
3	give in a quote	infinitive		this brother of mine					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
4	think speech: other in a quote	may	henchmen = henchman				time	about drubbing; twice property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	pitch in a quote	present	henchmen = henchman	a poor brother		henchmen's hut			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent brother=Theme out hut=Initial_Location

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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