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title: Then the Jews picked up the money, but they laid before him a table… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Jews picked up the money, but they laid before him a table covered with all the dishes that a man's heart may desire, and they begged him to sit down and make merry, and said with true Jewish cunning, "Though thou mayst get a little lively, don't get drunk, for thou knowest how drink plays 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 93

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Then the Jews picked up the money, but they laid before him a table covered with all the dishes that a man's heart may desire, and they begged him to sit down and make merry, and said with true Jewish cunning, "Though thou mayst get a little lively, don't get drunk, for thou knowest how drink plays the fool with a man's wits."--The man marvelled at the straightforwardness of the Jews in warning him against the drink, and, forgetting everything else, sat down at table and began drinking pot after pot of mead, and talking with the Jews, and his little ram went clean out of his head.

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**Who acts:** Jews, wretches, heart, thou, drink, man · **What happens:** pick up, lay, cover, desire, beg, sit down · **To what, where:** money, table, dishes, man, fool, Jew · **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, wretches, heart, 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:pg29672:3:93
# text = Then the Jews picked up the money, but they laid before him a table covered with all the dishes that a man's heart may desire, and they begged him to sit down and make merry, and said with true Jewish cunning, "Though thou mayst get a little lively, don't get drunk, for thou knowest how drink plays the fool with a man's wits."--The man marvelled at the straightforwardness of the Jews in warning him against the drink, and, forgetting everything else, sat down at table and began drinking pot after pot of mead, and talking with the Jews, and his little ram went clean out of his head.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
38	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	51	nsubj	_	_
50	mayst	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	obl:unmarked	_	_
54	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
59	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
62	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	63	nsubj	_	_
63	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	parataxis	_	_
64	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	66	advmod	_	_
65	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nsubj	_	_
66	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	advcl	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obj	_	_
69	with	with	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	's	's	PART	POS	_	71	case	_	_
73	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	79	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
78	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	nsubj	_	_
79	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
80	at	at	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
81	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	82	det	_	_
82	straightforwardness	straightforwardness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obl	_	_
83	of	of	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
84	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	85	det	_	_
85	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	82	nmod	_	_
86	in	in	ADP	IN	_	87	case	_	_
87	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obl	_	_
88	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	79	obj	_	_
89	against	against	ADP	IN	_	91	case	_	_
90	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	91	det	_	_
91	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
92	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	95	punct	_	_
93	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	95	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
94	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	95	punct	_	_
95	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
96	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	95	obj	_	_
97	else	else	ADV	RB	_	96	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
98	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	99	punct	_	_
99	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
100	down	down	ADP	RP	_	99	compound:prt	_	_
101	at	at	ADP	IN	_	102	case	_	_
102	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	99	obl	_	_
103	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	104	cc	_	_
104	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	99	conj	_	_
105	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	104	xcomp	_	_
106	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	105	obj	_	_
107	after	after	ADP	IN	_	108	case	_	_
108	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	105	obl	_	_
109	of	of	ADP	IN	_	110	case	_	_
110	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	108	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
111	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	113	punct	_	_
112	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	113	cc	_	_
113	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
114	with	with	ADP	IN	_	116	case	_	_
115	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	116	det	_	_
116	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	113	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
117	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	122	punct	_	_
118	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	122	cc	_	_
119	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	121	nmod:poss	_	_
120	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	121	amod	_	_
121	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	122	nsubj	_	_
122	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
123	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	122	xcomp	_	_
124	out	out	ADP	IN	_	127	case	_	_
125	of	of	ADP	IN	_	127	case	_	_
126	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	127	nmod:poss	_	_
127	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	122	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
128	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | the Jews | the money |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic |
| 2 | **lay** | past | wretches *= wretch* | a table |  |  | before Jew |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme before he=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a table *not said here* |  |  |  | with all dishes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dish=Theme |
| 4 | **desire** | may | a man's heart | all dishes |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | wretches *= wretch* |  | man |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wretches *= wretch* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make** | infinitive | wretches *= wretch* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Jews *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with true Jewish cunning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **get** *in a quote* | may | thou |  |  |  |  | lively *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **know** *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 12 | **play** *in a quote* | present | drink | the fool |  |  |  | with a man's wits | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fool=Theme with wit=Co-Agent |
| 13 | **marvell** | past | the man | Jew |  | the straightforwardness of the Jews |  | in warning; against the drink | tree rules |
| 14 | **forget** | gerund | the Jews *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 15 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  | table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 16 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 17 | **drink** | gerund |  | pot |  |  | after pot of mead |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
| 18 | **talk** | gerund | the Jews *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Jews | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with jew=Co-Agent |
| 19 | **go** | past | man's little ram |  |  | man's head |  | clean *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out head=Initial\_Location |

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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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