--- title: Thou shalt come back for him when a year has run, and if thou dost k… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thou shalt come back for him when a year has run, and if thou dost know him again, thou mayst take him; but if thou dost not know him again, he shall serve another year with me."--"Good!" cried the man. Who acts: Thou, last. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the For --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/) / 38 # Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 38 Thou shalt come back for him when a year has run, and if thou dost know him again, thou mayst take him; but if thou dost not know him again, he shall serve another year with me."--"Good!" cried the man. **Who acts:** Thou, last · **What happens:** come back, run, know, take, not know, serve · **To what, where:** last, man This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, last), 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:pg29672:2:38 # text = Thou shalt come back for him when a year has run, and if thou dost know him again, thou mayst take him; but if thou dost not know him again, he shall serve another year with me."--"Good!" cried the man. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nsubj _ _ 16 dost do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nsubj _ _ 22 mayst may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 nsubj _ _ 29 dost do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 again again ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 38 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ! ! PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 49 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | shall | Thou | | | | | for last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run** | present · perfect | Thou *not said here* | | | | year | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | thou | last | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **take** | may | thou | | last | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 5 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | thou | last | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 6 | **serve** | shall | last | | | | year | with me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=Theme | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | thou *not said here* | the man | | | | | tree rules | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/39/) - ↑ back to [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/)