Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 203

Then the henchmen leaped out of the drum, and laid hold of the rich brother and his wife, and trounced them soundly, until the rich brother yelled with all his might, "Oh, oh! my own true brother, take what thou wilt, only let me off alive!" whereupon the poor brother cried to his henchmen, "Henchmen, henchmen! into the drum!" and the henchmen disappeared immediately.

Who acts: henchmen, poor brother · What happens: leap out, lay, trounce, yell, take, let off · To what, where: drum, hold, henchmen, rich brother, All · 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 (henchmen, poor brother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 leaped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 henchmen	det
3	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaped	nsubj
4	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 drum	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 drum	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drum	det
8	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laid	cc
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	conj
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 brother	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brother	det
15	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brother	amod
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wife	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brother	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trounced	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 trounced	cc
22	trounced	trounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 trounced	obj
24	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	22 trounced	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brother	punct
26	until	until	ADP	_	29 brother	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 brother	det
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 brother	amod
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trounced	obl
30	yelled	yell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 brother	acl
31	with	with	SCONJ	_	34 might	mark
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 might	det:predet
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 might	nmod:poss
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 yelled	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 brother	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 brother	punct
37	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	44 brother	discourse
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Oh	punct
39	oh	oh	INTJ	_	44 brother	discourse
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 oh	punct
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 brother	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 brother	amod
43	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 brother	amod
44	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trounced	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 take	punct
46	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	parataxis
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 take	obj
48	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	49 wilt	nsubj
49	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	47 what	acl:relcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 let	punct
51	only	only	ADV	_	52 let	advmod
52	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	46 take	conj
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 let	obj
54	off	off	ADP	_	52 let	compound:prt
55	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 let	xcomp
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	46 take	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 take	punct
58	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	62 cried	advmod
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 brother	det
60	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 brother	amod
61	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 cried	nsubj
62	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaped	advcl
63	to	to	ADP	_	65 henchmen	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 henchmen	nmod:poss
65	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 cried	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 Henchmen	punct
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	68 Henchmen	punct
68	Henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 henchmen	conj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 henchmen	punct
70	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 henchmen	conj
71	!	!	PUNCT	_	65 henchmen	punct
72	into	into	ADP	_	74 drum	case
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 drum	det
74	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 cried	obl
75	!	!	PUNCT	_	74 drum	punct
76	"	"	PUNCT	_	74 drum	punct
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 disappeared	cc
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 henchmen	det
79	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	80 disappeared	nsubj
80	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 cried	conj
81	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	80 disappeared	advmod
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap out	past	the henchmen	the drum			then		tree rules
2	lay	past	the henchmen not said here	hold of the rich brother and brother's wife					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
3	trounce	past	the henchmen not said here	henchmen = henchman			until the rich brother	my own true brother obl; soundly property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	yell speech: express	participle		the rich brother not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take in a quote	infinitive							vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
6	let off in a quote	infinitive		All				alive property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	cry speech: express	past	the poor brother		brother's henchmen and Henchmen and henchmen	the drum		whereupon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to henchman=Recipient
8	disappear	past	the henchmen					immediately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hold			the rich brother and brother's wife					nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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