Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 77

Why wilt thou lie?"--"Well, and suppose I did lie?" said the man; "if thou suffer harm through thine own fault, hold thy tongue about it, that's what I say.

Who acts: thou, I, man, that, thine · What happens: lie, suppose, say, suffer, hold, be · To what, where: harm, own fault, tongue · 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, I, man, that), 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	4 lie	advmod
2	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 lie	nsubj
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 suppose	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 suppose	punct
9	Well	well	INTJ	_	12 suppose	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 suppose	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 suppose	cc
12	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	parataxis
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 lie	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	aux
15	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 suppose	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 hold	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 hold	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 suffer	mark
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 suffer	nsubj
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hold	advcl
26	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suffer	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	30 fault	case
28	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 fault	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fault	amod
30	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suffer	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 suffer	punct
32	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 suppose	conj
33	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 tongue	nmod:poss
34	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hold	obj
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hold	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 what	punct
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 what	nsubj
39	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 what	cop
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 suppose	parataxis
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 say	nsubj
42	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 what	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	future	thou				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	suppose	present					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	lie	past · do-support	I				tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	suffer a condition, not said to happen	present	thou	harm	thine own fault		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus
6	hold	infinitive		thy tongue		about tongue	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme about it=Location
7	is a	present	that				tree rules
8	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	fault		thine				nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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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