Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 42

Why, what is this, good man?" said they; "never have we seen anything like this before!"--"Ask no questions, ye accursed Jews!" cried the man, "but sit down to eat, for there is enough for all."

Who acts: good man, we, questions, ye, Jews · What happens: be, say, see, ask, accurs, cry · To what, where: good man, anything, man · 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, we, questions, ye), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 man	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 man	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 man	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seen	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 seen	obj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 seen	obl
22	before	before	ADV	_	18 seen	advmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 seen	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 seen	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 Ask	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Ask	punct
27	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 questions	det
29	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Ask	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 accursed	punct
31	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 accursed	nsubj
32	accursed	accurs	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Ask	conj
33	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 cried	nsubj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 Jews	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Jews	punct
36	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 accursed	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cried	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 sit	cc
42	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 Ask	conj
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 sit	compound:prt
44	to	to	PART	_	45 eat	mark
45	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 sit	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 enough	punct
47	for	for	ADP	_	50 enough	case
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	50 enough	expl
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 enough	cop
50	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 sit	conj
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 all	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 enough	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 Ask	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		good man			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	good man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	present · perfect	we	anything		like this; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	no questions				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	accurs	past	ye				tree rules
6	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Jews	the man			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
7	sit down	infinitive	no questions not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	eat	to-infinitive	no questions not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	present	no questions not said here		there	for all; enough property	tree rules

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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