Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 80
At this the Wind scratched his head a bit, but then he said, "Well then, thou man! there's a little ram for thee, and whenever thou dost want money say to it, 'Little ram, little ram, scatter money!' and it will scatter money as much as thou wilt.
Who acts: Wind, man, little ram, thou, money · What happens: scratch, say, be, do, want, scatter · To what, where: head, Little ram, ram, money · 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 (Wind, man, little ram, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Wind | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wind | det |
| 4 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scratched | nsubj |
| 5 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scratched | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bit | det |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scratched | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scratched | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 17 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 24 's | discourse |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 Well | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 Well | nsubj |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Well | vocative |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 's | expl |
| 24 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ram | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ram | amod |
| 27 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 's | nsubj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 thee | case |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 ram | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 want | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 want | cc |
| 32 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 dost | advmod |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 dost | nsubj |
| 34 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 want | advcl |
| 35 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scratched | parataxis |
| 36 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 say | nsubj |
| 37 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 want | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 say | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ram | punct |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 ram | punct |
| 42 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ram | amod |
| 43 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 say | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 ram | punct |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 ram | amod |
| 46 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ram | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 money | punct |
| 48 | scatter | scat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 money | amod |
| 49 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ram | parataxis |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 49 money | punct |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 ram | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 scatter | cc |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 scatter | nsubj |
| 54 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 scatter | aux |
| 55 | scatter | scatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 want | conj |
| 56 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 scatter | obj |
| 57 | as | as | ADV | _ | 58 much | advmod |
| 58 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 scatter | obj |
| 59 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 61 wilt | mark |
| 60 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 61 wilt | nsubj |
| 61 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 58 much | advcl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past | the Wind | man's head | a bit obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | man | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a little ram for thee | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | thou | whenever property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | want in a quote | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | money | Little ram and little ram | ram | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ram=Topic to it=Recipient | |||
| 7 | scatter in a quote | future | money | money | tree rules |
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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