Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 53
That therefore, my master, was why I did what I did, and I pray thee pardon me."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, do, pray, pardon · To what, where: thee, me
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 master | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 master | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 did | cop |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 did | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 master | parataxis |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 did | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pray | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pray | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pray | nsubj |
| 17 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 master | conj |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 pray | obj |
| 19 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pray | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pardon | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | do property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pray | present | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pardon | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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