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title: In the morning all the people assembled together and went to the fie… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning all the people assembled together and went to the field, and the rich man cried, "Speak, O God! whose field is this, the rich man's or the poor man's?" Who acts: people, rich man, field. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole, with its dependency tr
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 8

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In the morning all the people assembled together and went to the field, and the rich man cried, "Speak, O God! whose field is this, the rich man's or the poor man's?"

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**Who acts:** people, rich man, field · **What happens:** assemble, go, cry, speak, be · **To what, where:** field, God · **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 (people, rich man, field), 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:pg29672:21:8
# text = In the morning all the people assembled together and went to the field, and the rich man cried, "Speak, O God! whose field is this, the rich man's or the poor man's?"
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	25	case	_	_
25	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past | all people |  |  |  | morning | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | all people *not said here* |  |  | the field |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the rich man |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the rich man's poor man's field |  |  |  |  | 's the rich man's poor man | tree rules |

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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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