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title: The poor man came to his rich brother and said, "Hail to thee, broth… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor man came to his rich brother and said, "Hail to thee, brother; God help thee!"--Now the rich brother was threshing wheat on his threshing-floor, and, raising his head, was surprised to see his brother there, and said to him haughtily, "I thank thee. Who acts: poor man, God, rich brother, ra
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 157

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The poor man came to his rich brother and said, "Hail to thee, brother; God help thee!"--Now the rich brother was threshing wheat on his threshing-floor, and, raising his head, was surprised to see his brother there, and said to him haughtily, "I thank thee.

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**Who acts:** poor man, God, rich brother, raising, I · **What happens:** come, say, help, thresh, raise, be · **To what, where:** Hail, thee, wheat, threshing floor, head, brother · **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 (poor man, God, rich brother, raising), 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:pg29672:3:157
# text = The poor man came to his rich brother and said, "Hail to thee, brother; God help thee!"--Now the rich brother was threshing wheat on his threshing-floor, and, raising his head, was surprised to see his brother there, and said to him haughtily, "I thank thee.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	TO	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	threshing	thresh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
31	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
34	threshing	threshing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	csubj	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	_
56	haughtily	haughtily	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	ccomp	_	_
61	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the poor man |  |  |  |  | to man's rich brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the poor man *not said here* | Hail to thee and brother |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** *in a quote* |  | God | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **thresh** | past · progressive | the rich brother | wheat |  | man's threshing floor | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **raise** | gerund |  | man's head |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | raising |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | raising *not said here* | man's brother |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | man |  |  | haughtily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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