Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 18
Thou son of a dog," he shouted, before the house, "why hast thou not brought me back my money?
Who acts: God, thou · What happens: shout, have, not bring back · To what, where: house, money, me
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, thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 son | nsubj |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 son | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 son | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hast | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hast | punct |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 hast | advmod |
| 17 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 house | acl:relcl |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 brought | advmod |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hast | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | obj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 brought | advmod |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 money | nmod:poss |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | God | the house | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not bring back | past | thou | my money | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination money=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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