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title: Then the ikon of St Michael spoke to the rich man from the niche and… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the ikon of St Michael spoke to the rich man from the niche and said, "Come now! lend it him, and put it down to my account. Who acts: ikon, my. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 13

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Then the ikon of St Michael spoke to the rich man from the niche and said, "Come now! lend it him, and put it down to my account.

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**Who acts:** ikon, my · **What happens:** speak, say, come, lend, put down, account · **To what, where:** ikon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ikon, my), 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:pg29672:8:13
# text = Then the ikon of St Michael spoke to the rich man from the niche and said, "Come now! lend it him, and put it down to my account.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ikon	ikon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	niche	niche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
22	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the ikon of Michael  St |  |  |  | then | to the rich man from the niche | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the ikon of Michael  St *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lend** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ikon |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient he=Theme |
| 5 | **put down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ikon |  |  |  | to my account | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 6 | **account** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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