Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 21

He would repay thee indeed if he were in this world," said she, "but lo now! he died but a little while ago!"

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: repay, be, say, die · To what, where: thee, world · 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 (man, wife), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 repay	nsubj
2	would	would	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	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 repay	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 world	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 world	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 world	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 world	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 world	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 repay	parataxis
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 she	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 died	cc
19	lo	lo	ADV	_	23 died	advmod
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 lo	advmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 lo	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 repay	conj
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 ago	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 while	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 while	amod
27	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ago	obl:unmarked
28	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 repay	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 repay	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 repay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repay	would	man	thee		indeed property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	man		this world		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	die	past	man				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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