Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 60
Then the man said, "Sack, sack, give to us meat and drink!"
Who acts: man · What happens: say, give · To what, where: Sack, meat, us · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sack | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sack | punct |
| 7 | Sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sack | punct |
| 9 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sack | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | obl |
| 14 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drink | cc |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meat | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the man | Sack and sack | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | meat and drink | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent meat=Theme to we=Recipient |
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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