Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 195
Go now to thy master, and bid him buy twenty hides, and twenty poods[13] of pitch, and twenty poods of flax, and twenty poods of hair."--So Tremsin went to his master and told him, and his master bought it all.
Who acts: you, Tremsin, master · What happens: go, bid, buy, tell · To what, where: trifle, twenty hides, master, hair · 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 (you, Tremsin, master), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 master | case |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bid | cc |
| 8 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bid | obj |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bid | xcomp |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hides | nummod |
| 12 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 buy | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 poods | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 poods | cc |
| 15 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 poods | nummod |
| 16 | poods | pood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bid | obl |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 13 | punct |
| 18 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 poods | appos |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 13 | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pitch | case |
| 21 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 13 | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 poods | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 poods | cc |
| 24 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 poods | nummod |
| 25 | poods | pood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bid | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 flax | case |
| 27 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 poods | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 poods | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 poods | cc |
| 30 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 poods | nummod |
| 31 | poods | pood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bid | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 hair | case |
| 33 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 poods | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 poods | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 poods | punct |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 went | punct |
| 37 | So | so | ADV | _ | 39 went | advmod |
| 38 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 went | nsubj |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 master | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 master | nmod:poss |
| 42 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 went | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 told | cc |
| 44 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 went | conj |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 told | iobj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 bought | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 bought | cc |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 master | nmod:poss |
| 49 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 bought | nsubj |
| 50 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 went | conj |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 bought | obj |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 it | det |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | now | to thy master | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | bid | past | trifle | twenty poods obl; twenty poods of flax obl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buy | infinitive | twenty hides | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past | Tremsin | trifle's master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | Tremsin not said here | trifle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | buy in a quote | past | trifle's master | hair | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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