Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 94
But the Jews made him drunk, and laid him in the bed, and changed rams with him; his they took away, and put in its place one of their own exactly like it.
Who acts: Jews, wretches · What happens: make, lay, change, take away, put · To what, where: man, bed, rams, place
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, wretches), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Jews | det |
| 3 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 changed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 changed | cc |
| 16 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 17 | rams | ram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 changed | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 changed | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 took | nmod:poss |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 took | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 put | cc |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 took | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 place | nmod:poss |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 place | flat |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 own | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 own | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 place | nmod |
| 35 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 37 it | advmod |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Jews | man | drunk property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | |||
| 2 | lay | past | the Jews not said here | man | the bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in bed=Destination | |||
| 3 | change | past | the Jews not said here | rams | with man | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent ram=Theme with he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | take away | past | wretches = wretch | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | put | participle | wretches = wretch not said here | ram's place of wretches's own | like ram | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=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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