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title: Then the Jews caught him by the shoulders to cast him out and cried,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Jews caught him by the shoulders to cast him out and cried, "Be off, thou rascal! Who acts: Jews, thou. 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 124

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Then the Jews caught him by the shoulders to cast him out and cried, "Be off, thou rascal!

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**Who acts:** Jews, thou · **What happens:** catch, cast out, cry off, rascal · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jews, thou), 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:pg29672:3:124
# text = Then the Jews caught him by the shoulders to cast him out and cried, "Be off, thou rascal!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rascal	rascal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | the Jews | man |  |  | then | by the shoulders | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **cast out** | to-infinitive | the Jews *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product |
| 3 | **cry off** *speech: express* | past | the Jews *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rascal** *in a quote* |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | 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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