--- title: Thy wise brethren have watched to no purpose, what canst thou do?"--… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thy wise brethren have watched to no purpose, what canst thou do?"--"Hoity-toity!" said the fool; "give me a gun, and I'll go all the same." Who acts: thou, Hoity toity, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Hoity toity, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:18:12 # text = Thy wise brethren have watched to no purpose, what canst thou do?"--"Hoity-toity!" said the fool; "give me a gun, and I'll go all the same." 1 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 brethren brethren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 8 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 11 canst can AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 13 nsubj _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Hoity hoity NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 toity toity NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | present · perfect · passive | | Thy wise brethren | | | | to no purpose | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | can | thou | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Hoity toity | the fool | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fool=Topic | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | Hoity toity *not said here* | a gun | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gun=Theme | | 5 | **go** | future | I | | | | | same *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/18/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/18/13/) - ↑ back to [The Three Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/18/)