Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 40

Me my brothers took and slew, In the ditch my body threw, For the hog shot down by me, That rooted up the tree!

Who acts: Me, body, hog, That · What happens: take, slay, throw, shoot down, root up · To what, where: ditch, tree

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 (Me, body, hog, That), 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	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Me	iobj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slew	cc
6	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
8	In	in	ADP	_	10 ditch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ditch	det
10	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 body	nmod:poss
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	nsubj
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slew	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shot	punct
15	For	for	SCONJ	_	18 shot	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hog	det
17	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shot	nsubj
18	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 threw	advcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 shot	compound:prt
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 shot	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rooted	punct
23	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 rooted	nsubj
24	rooted	root	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 rooted	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rooted	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Me				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	slay	past	Me not said here				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	throw	past	my body		the ditch		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in ditch=Destination
4	shoot down	past	the hog			by me	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by i=Destination
5	root up	past	That	the tree			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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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