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title: Then he cried, "Into the drum, my henchmen!" and the henchmen disapp… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he cried, "Into the drum, my henchmen!" and the henchmen disappeared, leaving the Jews more dead than alive. Who acts: man, henchmen. 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 129

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Then he cried, "Into the drum, my henchmen!" and the henchmen disappeared, leaving the Jews more dead than alive.

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**Who acts:** man, henchmen · **What happens:** cry, disappear, leave · **To what, where:** drum

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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 (man, henchmen), 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:pg29672:3:129
# text = Then he cried, "Into the drum, my henchmen!" and the henchmen disappeared, leaving the Jews more dead than alive.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | man |  |  | the drum and my henchmen | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into drum=Recipient |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | the henchmen |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | the henchmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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