--- title: Give me back my sack and my ram, I say, and take back thy oxen, for… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Give me back my sack and my ram, I say, and take back thy oxen, for they won't listen to me!"--"What! take them back!" roared the rich brother. " Who acts: you, I, oxen. 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" **Who acts:** you, I, oxen · **What happens:** give back, say, take back, not listen, roar · **To what, where:** sack, me, oxen, rich brother · **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 (you, I, oxen), 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:pg29672:3:195 # text = Give me back my sack and my ram, I say, and take back thy oxen, for they won't listen to me!"--"What! take them back!" roared the rich brother. " 1 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 back back ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 32 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 37 roared roar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give back** | imperative | you *not said here* | my sack and my ram | me | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sack=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take back** | infinitive | | thy oxen | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | | 4 | **not** **listen** | future | oxen *= ox* | | me | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | | 5 | **take back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | oxen *= ox* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme they=Destination | | 6 | **roar** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | the rich brother | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=Theme | 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 194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/194/) - next →: [sentence 196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/196/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)