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title: Is it thou, O prince, who art feeding swine? — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it thou, O prince, who art feeding swine? Who acts: voice, O prince, art. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 59

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Is it thou, O prince, who art feeding swine?

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**Who acts:** voice, O prince, art · **What happens:** be, art, feed · **To what, where:** thou, swine

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, O prince, art), 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:pg29672:27:59
# text = Is it thou, O prince, who art feeding swine?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | voice | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **art** |  | O prince and art |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feed** | gerund | art *not said here* | swine |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Recipient |

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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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