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title: The poor man protested, but the rich man would not listen, but said… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor man protested, but the rich man would not listen, but said to him, "If thou wilt not believe me, then, poor man, come into the field quite early to-morrow morning, before dawn, and God shall judge betwixt us." Who acts: poor man, rich man, thou, God. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and F
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 4

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The poor man protested, but the rich man would not listen, but said to him, "If thou wilt not believe me, then, poor man, come into the field quite early to-morrow morning, before dawn, and God shall judge betwixt us."

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**Who acts:** poor man, rich man, thou, God · **What happens:** protest, not listen, say, not believe, come, judge · **To what, where:** God, poor man, field, betwixt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, rich man, thou, God), 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:pg29672:21:4
# text = The poor man protested, but the rich man would not listen, but said to him, "If thou wilt not believe me, then, poor man, come into the field quite early to-morrow morning, before dawn, and God shall judge betwixt us."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	protested	protest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
22	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	before	before	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
50	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	obj	_	_
51	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | the poor man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **listen** | would | the rich man |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | God |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **believe** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | thou |  | the poor man *= man* |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  | the field | dawn | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **judge** *in a quote* | shall | God | betwixt |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent betwixt=Value |

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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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