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title: Wherever he went, and whatever he did, and with whomsoever he served… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever he went, and whatever he did, and with whomsoever he served, nothing came of it: all his labour was like spilt water, he got no good from it. Who acts: youth, nothing, labour. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 2

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Wherever he went, and whatever he did, and with whomsoever he served, nothing came of it: all his labour was like spilt water, he got no good from it.

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**Who acts:** youth, nothing, labour · **What happens:** go, do, serve, come, be, get · **To what, where:** whatever, good

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, nothing, labour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:10:2
# text = Wherever he went, and whatever he did, and with whomsoever he served, nothing came of it: all his labour was like spilt water, he got no good from it.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whomsoever	whomsoever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	spilt	spilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | youth | whatever |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **serve** | past | youth |  |  |  |  | with whomsoever | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with whomsoever=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  | of whomsoever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | youth's labour |  |  |  |  | like spilt water | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | past | youth | no good |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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