Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 58
Do thou go in my stead and pass the night in the church, and I'll give thee all my ship."--"Nay, but," said the simpleton, "what if she tear me to pieces too?
Who acts: thou, I, Tsar · What happens: go, pass, give, say, tear · To what, where: stead, church, ship, thee, simpleton, me · 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 (thou, I, Tsar), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stead | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stead | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pass | cc |
| 8 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pass | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 church | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 church | det |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pass | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 ship | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ship | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 Nay | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Nay | punct |
| 27 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 3 go | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 but | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 simpleton | det |
| 34 | simpleton | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tear | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 tear | punct |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 tear | obj |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 tear | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 tear | nsubj |
| 40 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 said | conj |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 tear | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 pieces | case |
| 43 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 tear | obl |
| 44 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 tear | advmod |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive · do-support | thou | my stead | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pass | infinitive | thou not said here | the church | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in church=Location | |||
| 3 | give | future | I | my ship | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient ship=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the simpleton | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent simpleton=Topic | |||||
| 5 | tear a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | Tsar | me | to pieces | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Patient i=Result |
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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