--- title: Then he asked him in the most friendly manner, "Whence hath God brou… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he asked him in the most friendly manner, "Whence hath God brought thee hither, good man?"--"I am wandering through the wide world in search of the Wind," said the man. " Who acts: man, God. 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" **Who acts:** man, God · **What happens:** ask, have, bring, wonder, say, search · **To what, where:** giant, friendly manner, thee, wide world, Wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg29672:3:16 # text = Then he asked him in the most friendly manner, "Whence hath God brought thee hither, good man?"--"I am wandering through the wide world in search of the Wind," said the man. " 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 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 hath have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obj _ _ 17 hither hither ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 wandering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 28 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | man | | giant | the friendly manner | then | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | hither, whence *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | past | God | thee | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · progressive | man | | | the wide world | | in search of the Wind | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **search** *in a quote* | | | the Wind | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/17/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)