Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 22
Tell me, in God's name, why such things be?
Who acts: you, such things, God · What happens: tell, be, name · To what, where: me, name · 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, such things, God), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 God | case |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 be | punct |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 be | advmod |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 be | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | God's name | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | be | infinitive | such things | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | name | God | nom name «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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