Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 25
And I said to my wife, 'I'll go seek the Wind, and say to him, "Another time, visit not the poor man who hath but a little corn, and blow it not away, for bitterly doth he rue it!"'"--"Good, my son!" said the giant who lay on the floor. "
Who acts: I, poor man, trace, giant · What happens: say, go, seek, not visit, have, not blow away · To what, where: Wind, trace, poor man, floor · 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 (I, poor man, trace, giant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 said | conj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wind | det |
| 14 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seek | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 say | cc |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 say | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 22 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 visit | punct |
| 25 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 visit | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 28 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 man | amod |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 visit | obj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 hath | nsubj |
| 31 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 man | acl:relcl |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 corn | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 corn | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 corn | amod |
| 35 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hath | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 blow | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 blow | cc |
| 38 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | parataxis |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 blow | obj |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 blow | advmod |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 blow | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 doth | punct |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 doth | case |
| 44 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 45 doth | advmod |
| 45 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 blow | conj |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 rue | nsubj |
| 47 | rue | rue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 doth | xcomp |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 rue | obj |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 47 rue | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 rue | punct |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 doth | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 doth | punct |
| 53 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 55 Good | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 Good | punct |
| 55 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 blow | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 son | punct |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 son | nmod:poss |
| 58 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | vocative |
| 59 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 61 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 giant | det |
| 63 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 lay | nsubj |
| 64 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 65 lay | nsubj |
| 65 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 said | ccomp |
| 66 | on | on | ADP | _ | 68 floor | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 floor | det |
| 68 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 lay | obl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 61 said | punct |
| 70 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | to my wife | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | future | I | my son vocative | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | the Wind | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | infinitive | I not said here | trace | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | not visit in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | the poor man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | the poor man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not blow away in a quote | infinitive | Wind | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 8 | do in a quote | present | bitterly property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | rue in a quote | infinitive | trace | Wind | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 11 | lay in a quote | present | the giant | the floor | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
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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