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title: Dig up that mountain yonder and let the Dnieper flow over the site o… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dig up that mountain yonder and let the Dnieper flow over the site of it, and there build a store-house, and in the store-house stack the wheat that thou hast reaped, and sell this wheat to the merchant barques that sail by, and everything must be done by the time I get up early next morning!" Who a
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 90

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Dig up that mountain yonder and let the Dnieper flow over the site of it, and there build a store-house, and in the store-house stack the wheat that thou hast reaped, and sell this wheat to the merchant barques that sail by, and everything must be done by the time I get up early next morning!"

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**Who acts:** you, thou, wheat, merchant barques, I · **What happens:** dig up, let, build, have, reap, sell · **To what, where:** mountain, Dnieper flow, site, store house, wheat, merchant barques

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, wheat, merchant barques), 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:pg29672:24:90
# text = Dig up that mountain yonder and let the Dnieper flow over the site of it, and there build a store-house, and in the store-house stack the wheat that thou hast reaped, and sell this wheat to the merchant barques that sail by, and everything must be done by the time I get up early next morning!"
1	Dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	stack	stack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nsubj	_	_
36	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	reaped	reap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	barques	barque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	sail	sail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	60	advcl	_	_
56	by	by	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
61	up	up	ADP	RP	_	60	compound:prt	_	_
62	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	60	advmod	_	_
63	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | imperative | you *not said here* | that mountain |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the Dnieper flow |  | the site of site |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flow=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | present | you *not said here* | a store house |  | there |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 4 | **have** | present | thou | the wheat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reap** | participle | the wheat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sell** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this wheat | the merchant barques |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme to barque=Recipient |
| 7 | **sail** | present | the merchant barques |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **do** | must · passive |  | everything |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 9 | **get up** | present | I |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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