Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 19

So they took and slew him, and buried him in the ditch, and took the hog to their father, and said, "While we were watching, this hog came up and began digging, so we killed him and have brought him to you."

Who acts: brothers, we, hog · What happens: take, slay, bury, say, watch, come up · To what, where: fool, ditch, hog, father, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, we, hog), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slew	cc
5	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 buried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 buried	cc
9	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 buried	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ditch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ditch	det
13	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hog	det
18	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 watching	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 watching	punct
27	While	while	SCONJ	_	30 watching	mark
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 watching	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 watching	aux
30	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 hog	det
33	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
35	up	up	ADV	_	34 came	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 came	conj
38	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 began	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 killed	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	42 killed	advmod
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 killed	nsubj
42	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 killed	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 brought	cc
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 brought	aux
46	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 killed	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 brought	obj
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 you	case
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 brought	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	brothers = brother				vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	slay	past	brothers = brother not said here	fool			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	bury	past	brothers = brother not said here	fool		the ditch	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in ditch=Destination
4	take	past	brothers = brother not said here	the hog	brothers's father		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hog=Theme to father=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	brothers = brother not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	watch in a quote	past · progressive	we				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
7	come up in a quote	past	this hog				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	begin in a quote	past	this hog not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	dig in a quote	gerund	this hog not said here				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	kill in a quote	past	we	fool			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
11	bring in a quote	present · perfect	we not said here	fool	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to you=Destination

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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