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title: Now, when the Jews who were inside there saw the little ram, they be… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, when the Jews who were inside there saw the little ram, they began shrieking and said, "What art thou thinking of, O man! that thou bringest that little ram into the room? Who acts: Jews, Hail, thou, that. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its depen
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 87

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Now, when the Jews who were inside there saw the little ram, they began shrieking and said, "What art thou thinking of, O man! that thou bringest that little ram into the room?

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**Who acts:** Jews, Hail, thou, that · **What happens:** be, see, begin, shriek, say, think · **To what, where:** little ram, man, room · **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 (Jews, Hail, thou, that), 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:pg29672:3:87
# text = Now, when the Jews who were inside there saw the little ram, they began shrieking and said, "What art thou thinking of, O man! that thou bringest that little ram into the room?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	ccomp	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	shrieking	shriek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
23	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
25	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bringest	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Jews |  |  |  |  | inside, there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Jews | the little ram |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ram=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Hail |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shriek** | gerund | Hail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Hail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | thou | man |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | that | little ram |  | the room |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ram=Theme into room=Destination |

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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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