Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 14
God will repay thee!"--"Well," said the rich man, "I'll lend it to thee."
Who acts: God, I · What happens: repay, say, lend · To what, where: thee, rich man, account · 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 (God, 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 repay | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 repay | aux |
| 3 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 repay | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 repay | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 repay | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 said | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Well | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Well | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repay | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lend | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lend | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lend | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 lend | aux |
| 20 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lend | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 thee | case |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 lend | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repay | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 repay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | future | God | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the rich man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lend | future | I | account | thee | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to thou=Recipient |
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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