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title: This, however, was something beyond a joke, so the poor brother call… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This, however, was something beyond a joke, so the poor brother called to his henchmen, "Henchmen, henchmen! out of the drum, and give this brother of mine and his wife a sound drubbing, that they may think twice about it another time before they pitch a poor brother out of their hut!" Who acts: Thi
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 202

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This, however, was something beyond a joke, so the poor brother called to his henchmen, "Henchmen, henchmen! out of the drum, and give this brother of mine and his wife a sound drubbing, that they may think twice about it another time before they pitch a poor brother out of their hut!"

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**Who acts:** This, henchmen · **What happens:** be, call, give, think, pitch · **To what, where:** something, poor brother, henchmen, brother, hut · **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 (This, henchmen), 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:pg29672:3:202
# text = This, however, was something beyond a joke, so the poor brother called to his henchmen, "Henchmen, henchmen! out of the drum, and give this brother of mine and his wife a sound drubbing, that they may think twice about it another time before they pitch a poor brother out of their hut!"
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	drubbing	drubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
47	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	46	advmod	_	_
48	about	about	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
50	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
51	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:unmarked	_	_
52	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	pitch	pitch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	out	out	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | something |  |  |  | beyond a joke; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the poor brother *not said here* | brother's henchmen |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to henchman=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this brother of mine |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | may | henchmen *= henchman* |  |  |  | time | about drubbing; twice *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 5 | **pitch** *in a quote* | present | henchmen *= henchman* | a poor brother |  | henchmen's hut |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent brother=Theme out hut=Initial\_Location |

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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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