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title: Dear old father Wind," cried he, "be merciful, and let me get off al… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dear old father Wind," cried he, "be merciful, and let me get off alive. Who acts: Dear old father Wind, me. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 118

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Dear old father Wind," cried he, "be merciful, and let me get off alive.

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**Who acts:** Dear old father Wind, me · **What happens:** cry, be, let, get off · **To what, where:** man, me

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear old father Wind, me), 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:pg29672:3:118
# text = Dear old father Wind," cried he, "be merciful, and let me get off alive.
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	merciful	merciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Dear old father Wind | man |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Dear old father Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merciful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get off** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *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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