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title: But the people said to him, "Listen now! thou that art so unlucky, w… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the people said to him, "Listen now! thou that art so unlucky, why dost thou not go to the Tsar? Who acts: people. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 29

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But the people said to him, "Listen now! thou that art so unlucky, why dost thou not go to the Tsar?

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** say, listen, do, not go · **To what, where:** God, thou, Tsar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people), 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:pg29672:10:29
# text = But the people said to him, "Listen now! thou that art so unlucky, why dost thou not go to the Tsar?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	nsubj	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
14	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the people |  | God |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | the people *not said here* | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the people *not said here* |  |  | the Tsar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tsar=Initial\_Location |

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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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