Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 29
And whenever thou wantest a meal say, 'Sack, sack, give me to eat and drink!' and immediately thou shalt have thy fill both of meat and drink, so now thou wilt have wherewithal to comfort thy wife and children."
Who acts: thou, you · What happens: want, say, give, eat, drink, have · To what, where: meal, me, both, wherewithal, wife · 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 (thou, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 2 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 wantest | advmod |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 wantest | nsubj |
| 4 | wantest | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 meal | det |
| 6 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wantest | obj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wantest | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sack | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sack | punct |
| 10 | Sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wantest | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sack | punct |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sack | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wantest | punct |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 give | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drink | cc |
| 19 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 eat | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 drink | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 26 have | advmod |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 eat | conj |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 fill | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 have | xcomp |
| 29 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 fill | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 meat | case |
| 31 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 both | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 drink | cc |
| 33 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 meat | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 have | advmod |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 have | advmod |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 have | nsubj |
| 38 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 39 have | aux |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 give | conj |
| 40 | wherewithal | wherewithal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 comfort | mark |
| 42 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wherewithal | acl |
| 43 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 wife | nmod:poss |
| 44 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 comfort | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 children | cc |
| 46 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 wife | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | thou | a meal | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | thou not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | imperative | you not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | shall | thou | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fill | infinitive | thou not said here | both | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent both=Patient | ||||
| 8 | have | future | thou | wherewithal | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wherewithal=Patient | |||
| 9 | comfort | to-infinitive | thou not said here | thy wife and children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer |
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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