Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 21

Look now, if we can send him away, let us send him away; if we can hire him out, let us hire him out; perchance other folk may be able to do more with him than we can."

Who acts: you, we, us, perchance other folk · What happens: look, send away, let, hire out, be, do · To what, where: last, us

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, us, perchance other folk), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Look	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 send	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 send	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 send	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Look	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 send	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 send	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 send	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 send	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hire	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 hire	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hire	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hire	aux
20	hire	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Look	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hire	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	20 hire	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hire	conj
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	hire	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hire	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	26 hire	compound:prt
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 able	punct
30	perchance	perchance	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 folk	amod
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 folk	amod
32	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 able	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 able	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	cop
35	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Look	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 do	mark
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	xcomp
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 do	advmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	obl
41	than	than	SCONJ	_	43 can	mark
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 can	nsubj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 do	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		now		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	send away a condition, not said to happen	can	we	last		away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	us			tree rules
4	send away	infinitive	us not said here	last		away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	hire out a condition, not said to happen	can	we	last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	let	infinitive	we not said here	us			tree rules
7	hire out	infinitive	us not said here	last			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	is	may	perchance other folk			able property	tree rules
9	do	to-infinitive	perchance other folk not said here			with last	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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