Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 36
Well, come," they said, "though there is naught for thee to do; only take not much of these wares of thine with thee, for our ships are already full."--Then he made him laths and boards, put them on board the ship, took St Michael with him, and they departed.
Who acts: you, uncles, ships, youth · What happens: come, say, be, do, take, make · To what, where: naught, much, laths, Michael, uncles, ship · 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, uncles, ships, youth), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 naught | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 naught | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 is | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 naught | cop |
| 13 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 thee | case |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 naught | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 naught | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 take | advmod |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wares | case |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 wares | det |
| 25 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 much | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 thee | case |
| 27 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 thee | nmod:poss |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 thee | case |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 wares | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 full | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 full | mark |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 ships | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 full | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 full | cop |
| 35 | already | already | ADV | _ | 36 full | advmod |
| 36 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 take | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 full | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 full | punct |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 made | punct |
| 40 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 made | advmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 made | nsubj |
| 42 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | parataxis |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 made | obj |
| 44 | laths | lath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 made | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 boards | cc |
| 46 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 laths | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 put | punct |
| 48 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | conj |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 put | obj |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 53 ship | case |
| 51 | board | board | ADP | _ | 53 ship | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 ship | det |
| 53 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 put | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 took | punct |
| 55 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 put | parataxis |
| 56 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Michael | nmod:desc |
| 57 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 took | obj |
| 58 | with | with | ADP | _ | 59 him | case |
| 59 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 took | obl |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 departed | punct |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 departed | cc |
| 62 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 departed | nsubj |
| 63 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 took | conj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | uncles = uncle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | naught | for thee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | uncles = uncle not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | you not said here | much | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | is | present | our ships | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make in a quote | past | youth | laths and boards | Michael | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary lath=Product | ||
| 8 | put in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | uncles = uncle | the ship | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ship=Destination | |||
| 9 | take in a quote | past | Michael St | with youth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument michael=Destination | ||||
| 10 | depart in a quote | past | uncles = uncle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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