Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 27

Then give me of your tar to tar my sides, that the dogs and the sons of dogs tear me not!"--"Take some," said the ox.

Who acts: you, dogs, some · What happens: give, tar, not tear, take, say · To what, where: me, sides, ox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dogs, some), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tar	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tar	nmod:poss
6	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tar	mark
8	tar	tar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 give	advcl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sides	nmod:poss
10	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tar	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tear	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 tear	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dogs	det
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tear	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sons	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sons	det
17	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dogs	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 dogs	case
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sons	nmod
20	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tear	obj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 tear	advmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 Take	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Take	punct
27	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 said	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 some	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 some	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Take	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ox	det
33	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		me	then	of your tar	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	tar	to-infinitive	you not said here	my sides				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Destination
3	not tear	present	the dogs and the sons of dogs	me				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location i=Theme
4	take	infinitive	you not said here					vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	some	the ox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ox=Topic

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: «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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