--- title: Why wilt thou lie?"--"Well, and suppose I did lie?" said the man; "i… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Why wilt thou lie?"--"Well, and suppose I did lie?" said the man; "if thou suffer harm through thine own fault, hold thy tongue about it, that's what I say. Who acts: thou, I, man, that. 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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, I, man, that), 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:pg29672:3:77 # text = Why wilt thou lie?"--"Well, and suppose I did lie?" said the man; "if thou suffer harm through thine own fault, hold thy tongue about it, that's what I say. 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Well well INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 25 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 26 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 32 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 33 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 parataxis _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | future | thou | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **suppose** | present | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **lie** | past · do-support | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **suffer** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | harm | | thine own fault | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus | | 6 | **hold** | infinitive | | thy tongue | | | | about tongue | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme about it=Location | | 7 | **is a** | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **fault** | | thine | | | | | | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/78/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/)