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title: Then Daniel waved his sword and smote, and only those whom his blows… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Daniel waved his sword and smote, and only those whom his blows did not reach escaped alive. Who acts: Daniel, blows. 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 69

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Then Daniel waved his sword and smote, and only those whom his blows did not reach escaped alive.

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**Who acts:** Daniel, blows · **What happens:** wave, not reach, escape, blow · **To what, where:** sword

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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 (Daniel, blows), 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:pg29672:10:69
# text = Then Daniel waved his sword and smote, and only those whom his blows did not reach escaped alive.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	smote	smote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
19	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | past | Daniel | Daniel's sword and smote |  |  | then |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **reach** | past · do-support | Daniel's blows |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **escape** | participle | Daniel's blows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** |  | Daniel |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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