Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 50

Then they dug the dead man up, and buried him in the cemetery; but they tied the elder brother to a wild horse, which scattered his bones about the endless steppe.

Who acts: brothers, wild horse · What happens: dig up, bury, tie, scatter · To what, where: dead man, man, cemetery, elder brother, bones

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, wild horse), 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	3 dug	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	3 dug	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 buried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 buried	cc
10	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buried	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cemetery	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cemetery	det
14	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buried	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tied	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 tied	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tied	nsubj
18	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brother	det
20	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 brother	amod
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 horse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 horse	det
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 scattered	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 scattered	nsubj
28	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 horse	acl:relcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bones	nmod:poss
30	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 scattered	obj
31	about	about	ADP	_	34 steppe	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 steppe	det
33	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 steppe	amod
34	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scattered	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	brothers = brother	the dead man		then		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Instrument
2	bury	past	brothers = brother not said here	man	the cemetery			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cemetery=Destination
3	tie	past	brothers = brother	the elder brother			to a wild horse	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient to horse=Co-Patient
4	scatter	past	a wild horse	horse's bones			about the endless steppe	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme about steppe=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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