Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 6
Thou knowest the saying, 'If thou dost want to find the Wind, seek him on the open steppe.
Who acts: Thou · What happens: know, do, want, find, seek · To what, where: saying, Wind, man, open steppe
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), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 knowest | nsubj |
| 2 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 saying | det |
| 4 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knowest | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seek | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 seek | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 dost | mark |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 dost | nsubj |
| 9 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seek | advcl |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dost | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 want | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wind | det |
| 14 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dost | punct |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saying | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seek | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 steppe | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 steppe | det |
| 20 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 steppe | amod |
| 21 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seek | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Thou | the saying | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer saying=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want | present | thou not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | thou not said here | the Wind | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic | ||||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | Thou not said here | man | the open steppe | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on steppe=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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