Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 29
I'll give thee a silver rouble, but do thou give me this holy image!"--"Take him if thou wilt, but see that thou bring me the silver rouble first."
Who acts: I, thou, that · What happens: give, take, see, bring · To what, where: silver rouble, thee, holy image, me, man · 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, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rouble | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rouble | amod |
| 7 | rouble | rouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 image | det |
| 15 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 image | amod |
| 16 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 image | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 image | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Take | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Take | punct |
| 21 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Take | obj |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 wilt | mark |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 wilt | nsubj |
| 25 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 21 Take | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 see | cc |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 bring | nsubj |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 bring | nsubj |
| 31 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 see | ccomp |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 bring | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rouble | det |
| 34 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rouble | compound |
| 35 | rouble | rouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bring | obj |
| 36 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 bring | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | a silver rouble | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient rouble=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive · do-support | thou | this holy image | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient image=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | thou not said here | man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | that | the silver rouble | me | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination rouble=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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