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title: But the man went to the Wind and said, "Hail to thee, O Wind!"--"Goo… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the man went to the Wind and said, "Hail to thee, O Wind!"--"Good health to thee, O man!" replied the Wind. Who acts: man, Hail. 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 69

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But the man went to the Wind and said, "Hail to thee, O Wind!"--"Good health to thee, O man!" replied the Wind.

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**Who acts:** man, Hail · **What happens:** go, say, reply · **To what, where:** Wind · **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 (man, Hail), 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:pg29672:3:69
# text = But the man went to the Wind and said, "Hail to thee, O Wind!"--"Good health to thee, O man!" replied the Wind.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	TO	_	14	case	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	case	_	_
17	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	TO	_	25	case	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the man |  |  | the Wind |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wind=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Hail to thee and Good health to thee | the Wind |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wind=Topic |

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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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