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title: I will go and ask those people who are ploughing yonder." — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I will go and ask those people who are ploughing yonder." Who acts: I, people. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 153

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I will go and ask those people who are ploughing yonder."

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**Who acts:** I, people · **What happens:** go, ask, plough · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg29672:19:153
# text = I will go and ask those people who are ploughing yonder."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	ploughing	plough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | that people |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 3 | **plough** | present · progressive | that people |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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