Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 92
We will give thee such a lot of money for it."--"You may pick up all that money, ye accursed ones," cried the man, "but I don't mean to sell my ram."
Who acts: We, You, ye, I · What happens: give, pick up, accurs, cry, not mean, sell · To what, where: lot, thee, money, ones, man, ram · 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 (We, You, ye, I), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 lot | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lot | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 pick | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 pick | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 pick | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 pick | aux |
| 18 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 pick | compound:prt |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 money | det:predet |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 money | det |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pick | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 accursed | punct |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 accursed | nsubj |
| 25 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pick | conj |
| 26 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 accursed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cried | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 cried | punct |
| 29 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cried | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 man | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 man | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 mean | cc |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 mean | nsubj |
| 36 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 mean | aux |
| 37 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 mean | advmod |
| 38 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 cried | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 sell | mark |
| 40 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 mean | xcomp |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 ram | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sell | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | We | such lot of money for ram | thee | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pick up | may | You | all money | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic | ||||
| 3 | accurs | past | ye | ones | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not mean | present · do-support | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my ram | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Theme |
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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