Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 50
And if they will not read," said he, "they shall not depart from my kingdom."
Who acts: merchants, man · What happens: not read, say, not depart · To what, where: kingdom · 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 (merchants, man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 read | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 read | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 read | advmod |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 read | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 read | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 depart | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 depart | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 depart | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 depart | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 depart | advmod |
| 16 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 depart | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 depart | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 depart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read a condition, not said to happen | future | merchants = merchant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not depart | shall | merchants = merchant | my kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kingdom=Initial_Location |
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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