Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 28
That is why I am beating him now."--"Beat him not, my father!
Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, beat, not beat · To what, where: man
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 (That, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 beating | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beating | aux |
| 6 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beating | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 beating | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beating | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 beating | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Beat | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Beat | punct |
| 13 | Beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Beat | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 Beat | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 father | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Beat | vocative |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | present · progressive | I | man | now | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 3 | not beat | infinitive | That not said here | man | my father vocative | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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