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title: So the Jews flattered him with devilish cunning, and almost forced t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Jews flattered him with devilish cunning, and almost forced the wine-jars to his lips. Who acts: Jews. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 47

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So the Jews flattered him with devilish cunning, and almost forced the wine-jars to his lips.

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**Who acts:** Jews · **What happens:** flatter, force · **To what, where:** soul, wine jars

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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 (Jews), 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:pg29672:3:47
# text = So the Jews flattered him with devilish cunning, and almost forced the wine-jars to his lips.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flattered	flatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	devilish	devilish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flatter** | past | the Jews | soul |  |  |  | with devilish cunning | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **force** | past | the Jews *not said here* | the wine jars |  |  |  | to soul's lips; almost *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Recipient |

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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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