--- title: Thou givest nothing, and thou hearest nothing"--and, leaping from hi… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thou givest nothing, and thou hearest nothing"--and, leaping from his seat, he took up a club and began beating the sack till he had knocked a hole in the wall, and beaten the sack to bits. Who acts: Thou, man. 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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, man), 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:pg29672:3:66 # text = Thou givest nothing, and thou hearest nothing"--and, leaping from his seat, he took up a club and began beating the sack till he had knocked a hole in the wall, and beaten the sack to bits. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 givest give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 7 hearest hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 leaping leap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 till till SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 knocked knock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 parataxis _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Thou | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | present | thou | nothing | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 3 | **leap** *in a quote* | gerund | man *not said here* | | | man's seat | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory | | 4 | **take up** *in a quote* | past | man | a club | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | | 5 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **beat** *in a quote* | gerund | man *not said here* | the sack | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | | 7 | **knock** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive | | man | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination hole=Theme | | 8 | **beat** *in a quote* | participle | | the sack | bits | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sack=Patient to bit=Recipient | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/67/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)