Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 75

Give me something, old father."--But the Wind replied, "Nay, O man, thou must do without.

Who acts: you, Wind, thou · What happens: give, reply, do · To what, where: something, me, 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 (you, Wind, 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Give	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 father	amod
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	appos
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct
10	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 replied	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wind	det
12	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 replied	nsubj
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
16	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	19 man	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Nay	punct
18	O	o	INTJ	_	19 man	discourse
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 replied	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 do	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
24	without	without	ADP	_	23 do	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	something	me	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	the Wind	man		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	must	thou			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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