Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 42

Then the father gave the flute to the elder brother who had slain him, but he wouldn't take it. "

Who acts: father, elder brother · What happens: give, slay, not take · To what, where: flute, elder brother, father, hand

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 (father, elder brother), 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	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flute	det
6	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 brother	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brother	det
9	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 slain	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 slain	aux
13	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 brother	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slain	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 take	advmod
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	the father	the flute	the elder brother	then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent flute=Theme to brother=Recipient
2	slay	past · perfect	the elder brother	father			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	not take	would	father	hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «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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