--- title: Go home ere I beat thee!"--"Don't say that," replied the poor man, "… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Go home ere I beat thee!"--"Don't say that," replied the poor man, "but give me back my ram and my sack, and then I _will_ go."--At this the rich brother quite lost his temper, and cried to his wife and children, "Why do you stand staring like that? Who acts: you, I, rich brother, brother. 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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, rich brother, brother), 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:pg29672:3:200 # text = Go home ere I beat thee!"--"Don't say that," replied the poor man, "but give me back my ram and my sack, and then I _will_ go."--At this the rich brother quite lost his temper, and cried to his wife and children, "Why do you stand staring like that? 1 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 home home ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 ere ere ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 14 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 back back ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 38 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ _ 39 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 At at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 obl _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 48 quite quite ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 50 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 parataxis _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 61 " " PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 65 advmod _ _ 63 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 64 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 65 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 conj _ _ 66 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 65 advcl _ _ 67 like like ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 68 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 66 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **beat** | present | I | thee | | | | ere *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | that | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | the poor man | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | | 5 | **give back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my ram and my sack | me | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ram=Theme | | 6 | **go** | future | I | | | | then | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | the rich brother | brother's temper | | this | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | | 8 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | | | brother's wife and children | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | | 9 | **stand** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **stare** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | like that | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **temper** *in a quote* | | brother | | | | | | nom temper «feeling 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 199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/199/) - next →: [sentence 201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/201/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)