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title: Go home, and I'll speak to my overseer, and he shall appoint thee a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Go home, and I'll speak to my overseer, and he shall appoint thee a place."--So he returned from the nobleman's castle, and his wife said to him, "Go now into the forest and cut down an oak, a young oak, that thou canst span round with both arms." Who acts: you, I, man, wife. A sentence of «Cossack 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 176

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Go home, and I'll speak to my overseer, and he shall appoint thee a place."--So he returned from the nobleman's castle, and his wife said to him, "Go now into the forest and cut down an oak, a young oak, that thou canst span round with both arms."

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**Who acts:** you, I, man, wife, that · **What happens:** go, speak, appoint, return, say, cut down · **To what, where:** thee, castle, man, forest, oak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, I, man, wife), 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:pg29672:19:176
# text = Go home, and I'll speak to my overseer, and he shall appoint thee a place."--So he returned from the nobleman's castle, and his wife said to him, "Go now into the forest and cut down an oak, a young oak, that thou canst span round with both arms."
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	overseer	overseer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	So	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
46	down	down	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	57	nsubj	_	_
55	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	57	nsubj	_	_
56	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	span	span	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	parataxis	_	_
58	round	round	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	61	det	_	_
61	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  |  | to my overseer | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to overseer=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **appoint** | shall | man | thee |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme place=Attribute |
| 4 | **return** *in a quote* | past | man |  |  | the nobleman's castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | man's wife |  | man |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | the forest | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **cut down** | participle |  | a oak and a young oak |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oak=Product |
| 8 | **span round** | can | that |  |  |  |  | with both arms; round *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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