Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 132
Then he sent for his heyducks and commanded them, saying, "Go this instant to such and such a kingdom, and there ye will find the youth who cured my daughter; bring him to me."
Who acts: youth, ye · What happens: send, command, say, go, find, cure · To what, where: heyducks, instant, youth, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, ye), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 heyducks | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heyducks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heyducks | heyduck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 commanded | cc |
| 8 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 commanded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 commanded | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Go | punct |
| 14 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 instant | det |
| 16 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Go | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 such | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Go | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kingdom | cc |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 kingdom | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Go | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 find | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 find | expl |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 find | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 youth | det |
| 30 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | obj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 cured | nsubj |
| 32 | cured | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 youth | acl:relcl |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cured | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 bring | punct |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 me | case |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 bring | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | youth | then | for youth's heyducks | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | command | past | youth not said here | heyducks = heyduck | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | youth not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | this instant | to such | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location instant=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find in a quote | future | ye | the youth | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | |||
| 6 | cure in a quote | past | the youth | my daughter | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer daughter=Source | ||||
| 7 | bring in a quote | infinitive | youth not said here | youth | youth | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=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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