Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 5

[119] They then oblige the ladies to swear not to betray them, the taking of the oath being accompanied by the eating of earth.

Who acts: brothers, eating, earth · What happens: oblige, swear, not betray, accompany, take, eat · To what, where: 119, brothers, taking, oath

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, eating, earth), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 119	punct
2	119	119	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 oblige	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 119	punct
4	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 oblige	nsubj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 oblige	advmod
6	oblige	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ladies	det
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 oblige	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 swear	mark
10	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 oblige	advcl
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 betray	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 betray	mark
13	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 swear	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 betray	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 accompanied	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 taking	det
17	taking	taking	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 accompanied	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 oath	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 oath	det
20	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taking	nmod
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 accompanied	aux:pass
22	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 betray	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 eating	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eating	det
25	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 accompanied	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 earth	case
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eating	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 oblige	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	oblige	present	brothers = brother	119	then	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
2	swear	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not betray	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	brothers = brother		tree rules
4	accompany	gerund · passive	the eating of earth	the taking of the oath		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	take			the oath		nom taking «act transitive»: of=patient
6	eat		earth			nom eating «act intransitive»: of=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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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