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title: Give me something, old father."--But the Wind replied, "Nay, O man,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Give me something, old father."--But the Wind replied, "Nay, O man, thou must do without. Who acts: you, Wind, thou. 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 75

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Give me something, old father."--But the Wind replied, "Nay, O man, thou must do without.

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**Who acts:** you, Wind, thou · **What happens:** give, reply, do · **To what, where:** something, me, man · **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 (you, Wind, thou), 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:pg29672:3:75
# text = Give me something, old father."--But the Wind replied, "Nay, O man, thou must do without.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | something | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Wind | man |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | must | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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