--- title: Chil-maq went out, tall as a tower, and bearing a shield of eight mi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Chil-maq went out, tall as a tower, and bearing a shield of eight millstones, and as he walked he shouted: “Ho! blunder-head! by what right do you come to our country and kill our people? Who acts: Chil maq, maq, you. 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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 (Chil maq, maq, you), 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:pg3282:4:34 # text = Chil-maq went out, tall as a tower, and bearing a shield of eight millstones, and as he walked he shouted: “Ho! blunder-head! by what right do you come to our country and kill our people? 1 Chil Chil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 maq maq NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 bearing bear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 millstones millstone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Ho Ho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 30 blunder blunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 obl _ _ 36 right right ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 45 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | Chil maq | | | | | tall *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bear** | gerund | Chil maq *not said here* | a shield of eight millstones | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient | | 3 | **walk** | past | maq | Ho blunder head | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by what=Trajectory | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | maq | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | our country | | right *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | our people | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | 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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/35/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/)