Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 27
But, good man, there is no need for thee to seek the Wind in the open steppe, for I myself am the Wind."--"Then if thou art the Wind," said the man, "give me back my corn."--"Nay," said the giant; "thou canst not make the dead come back from the grave.
Who acts: good man, thee, I, man, thou, dead · What happens: be, seek, say, give back, not make, come back · To what, where: Wind, open steppe, corn, me, giant, grave · 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 (good man, thee, I, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 is | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 said | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 need | det |
| 9 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 seek | mark |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 seek | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 seek | mark |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 art | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wind | det |
| 15 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 steppe | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 steppe | det |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 steppe | amod |
| 19 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wind | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Wind | case |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 Wind | nsubj |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 22 I | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Wind | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Wind | det |
| 26 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wind | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wind | punct |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 seek | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 art | punct |
| 31 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 art | advmod |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 art | mark |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 art | nsubj |
| 34 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 need | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Wind | det |
| 36 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 art | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 art | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 man | det |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 said | nsubj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 give | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 give | punct |
| 44 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 said | ccomp |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 give | iobj |
| 46 | back | back | ADP | _ | 44 give | compound:prt |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 corn | nmod:poss |
| 48 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 give | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 give | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 give | punct |
| 51 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 53 Nay | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 Nay | punct |
| 53 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 56 said | discourse |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Nay | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 Nay | punct |
| 56 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 said | parataxis |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 giant | det |
| 58 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 said | obj |
| 59 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 64 make | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 make | punct |
| 61 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 64 make | nsubj |
| 62 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 64 make | aux |
| 63 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 64 make | advmod |
| 64 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 said | ccomp |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 dead | det |
| 66 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 come | nsubj |
| 67 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 make | parataxis |
| 68 | back | back | ADV | _ | 67 come | advmod |
| 69 | from | from | ADP | _ | 71 grave | case |
| 70 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 71 grave | det |
| 71 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 come | obl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | good man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | thee | the Wind | the open steppe | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme in steppe=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | for the Wind | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give back | infinitive | my corn | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient corn=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not make | can | thou | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 8 | come back | present | the dead | the grave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from grave=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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