--- title: And whenever thou wantest a meal say, 'Sack, sack, give me to eat an… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And whenever thou wantest a meal say, 'Sack, sack, give me to eat and drink!' and immediately thou shalt have thy fill both of meat and drink, so now thou wilt have wherewithal to comfort thy wife and children." Who acts: thou, you. 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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 (thou, you), 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:pg29672:3:29 # text = And whenever thou wantest a meal say, 'Sack, sack, give me to eat and drink!' and immediately thou shalt have thy fill both of meat and drink, so now thou wilt have wherewithal to comfort thy wife and children." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 2 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 4 advmod _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wantest want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 25 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 28 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 37 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nsubj _ _ 38 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 40 wherewithal wherewithal NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 comfort comfort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl _ _ 43 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | thou | a meal | | | | whenever *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meal=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | thou *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | shall | thou | | | | | immediately *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fill** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | both | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent both=Patient | | 8 | **have** | future | thou | wherewithal | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wherewithal=Patient | | 9 | **comfort** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy wife and children | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/30/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)