Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 66
Thou givest nothing, and thou hearest nothing"--and, leaping from his seat, he took up a club and began beating the sack till he had knocked a hole in the wall, and beaten the sack to bits.
Who acts: Thou, man · What happens: give, hear, leap, take up, begin, beat · To what, where: nothing, seat, club, sack, man, bits · 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, 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 givest | nsubj |
| 2 | givest | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 givest | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hearest | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hearest | cc |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 hearest | nsubj |
| 7 | hearest | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 givest | conj |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 hearest | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hearest | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaping | punct |
| 13 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 took | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 seat | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 seat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaping | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaping | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 givest | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 club | det |
| 22 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 25 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 began | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sack | det |
| 27 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beating | obj |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 knocked | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 knocked | aux |
| 31 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 beating | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hole | det |
| 33 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 knocked | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 wall | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wall | det |
| 36 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hole | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 beaten | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 beaten | cc |
| 39 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 took | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sack | det |
| 41 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 beaten | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 bits | case |
| 43 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 beaten | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 givest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Thou | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | thou | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | leap in a quote | gerund | man not said here | man's seat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | take up in a quote | past | man | a club | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | ||||
| 5 | begin in a quote | past | man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | beat in a quote | gerund | man not said here | the sack | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | ||||
| 7 | knock in a quote | past · perfect · passive | man | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination hole=Theme | |||||
| 8 | beat in a quote | participle | the sack | bits | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sack=Patient to bit=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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