Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 200
I shall then come out of the sea, and after me the whole herd; then thou must strike with the horsehair the horse which gallops immediately after me, and he will not be too strong for thee."--So the faithful steed plunged into the sea, and Tremsin sat down on the shore and watched.
Who acts: I, thou, horse, SEA, Tremsin · What happens: come out, strike, gallop, not be, plunge, sit down · To what, where: faithful steed, sea, shore · 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 (I, thou, horse, SEA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 me | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 me | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 herd | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 herd | amod |
| 15 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 me | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 strike | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 strike | advmod |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 strike | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 strike | aux |
| 20 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 horsehair | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horsehair | det |
| 23 | horsehair | horsehair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strike | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horse | det |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 horsehair | appos |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 gallops | nsubj |
| 27 | gallops | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 horse | acl:relcl |
| 28 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 27 gallops | advmod |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 gallops | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 strong | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 strong | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 strong | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 strong | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 strong | advmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 strong | cop |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 strong | advmod |
| 38 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strike | parataxis |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 thee | case |
| 40 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 strong | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 strong | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 strong | punct |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 47 steed | punct |
| 44 | So | so | ADV | _ | 47 steed | advmod |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 steed | det |
| 46 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 steed | amod |
| 47 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strike | parataxis |
| 48 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 steed | acl |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 sea | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 sea | det |
| 51 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 plunged | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 sat | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 sat | cc |
| 54 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 sat | nsubj |
| 55 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 strike | parataxis |
| 56 | down | down | ADP | _ | 55 sat | compound:prt |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 59 shore | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 shore | det |
| 59 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 sat | obl |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 watched | cc |
| 61 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 sat | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | shall | I | after me; then | of the sea; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | strike | must | thou | then | with the horsehair | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gallop | present | the horse | after me | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is | future | SEA | for thee; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | plunge in a quote | participle | the faithful steed not said here | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | sit down in a quote | past | Tremsin | the shore | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location | ||||
| 7 | watch in a quote | past | Tremsin not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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