Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 87
Now, when the Jews who were inside there saw the little ram, they began shrieking and said, "What art thou thinking of, O man! that thou bringest that little ram into the room?
Who acts: Jews, Hail, thou, that · What happens: be, see, begin, shriek, say, think · To what, where: little ram, man, room · 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 (Jews, Hail, thou, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Jews | det |
| 5 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 there | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Jews | ccomp |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ram | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ram | amod |
| 13 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | parataxis |
| 17 | shrieking | shriek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 began | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 began | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 art | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 art | punct |
| 22 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 art | nsubj |
| 23 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 thinking | nsubj |
| 25 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 art | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 thinking | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 man | punct |
| 28 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 29 man | discourse |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thinking | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 bringest | punct |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 bringest | nsubj |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 bringest | nsubj |
| 33 | bringest | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 ram | mark |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ram | amod |
| 36 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bringest | obj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 room | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 room | det |
| 39 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bringest | obl |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Jews | inside, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Jews | the little ram | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ram=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Hail | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | shriek | gerund | Hail not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | Hail not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | gerund | thou | man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | bring in a quote | present | that | little ram | the room | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ram=Theme into room=Destination |
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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