--- title: Perchance thou hast watered them with foul water, so that their bloo… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Perchance thou hast watered them with foul water, so that their blood is stagnant, and their flesh inflamed?"--"The murrain take 'em if I know thy meaning!" cried the poor brother. " Who acts: thou, Perchance, blood, flesh. 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" **Who acts:** thou, Perchance, blood, flesh, murrain, I · **What happens:** have, water, be, inflame, take, know · **To what, where:** Perchance, oxen, 'em, meaning, poor brother 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 (thou, Perchance, blood, flesh), 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:pg29672:3:193 # text = Perchance thou hast watered them with foul water, so that their blood is stagnant, and their flesh inflamed?"--"The murrain take 'em if I know thy meaning!" cried the poor brother. " 1 Perchance perchance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 watered water VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 foul foul ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 15 mark _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 stagnant stagnant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 inflamed inflame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 murrain murrain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 28 'em they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 36 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | thou | Perchance *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perchance=Patient | | 2 | **water** | past | Perchance | oxen *= ox* | | | | with foul water | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | oxen's blood | | | | | stagnant *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **inflame** | participle | oxen's flesh | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | the murrain | 'em *= they* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | thy meaning | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Perchance *not said here* | the poor brother | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **mean** | | thy | | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/192/) - next →: [sentence 194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/194/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)