Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 46
Twas thou who didst me slay, And stowed my corpse away, For the hog shot down by me, That rooted up the tree!
Who acts: Twas, hog · What happens: do, slay, stow away, shoot down, root up · To what, where: me, corpse, 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 (Twas, 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rooted | nsubj |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Twas | obj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 didst | nsubj |
| 4 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Twas | acl:relcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 didst | obj |
| 6 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 didst | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stowed | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stowed | cc |
| 9 | stowed | stow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 didst | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 corpse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stowed | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 stowed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shot | punct |
| 14 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 shot | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hog | det |
| 16 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shot | nsubj |
| 17 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stowed | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 shot | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 shot | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rooted | punct |
| 22 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 rooted | nsubj |
| 23 | rooted | root | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 rooted | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rooted | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 rooted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Twas | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay | infinitive | Twas not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stow away | past | Twas not said here | my corpse | away property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme | |||
| 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 | Twas | 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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