Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 47

Then Oh seized him, and bade them bring wood and tie his labourer fast to the wood, and set the wood on fire till the labourer was burnt to ashes.

What happens: seize, bade, bring, tie, set, burnt · To what, where: last, nixies, wood, labourer, fire

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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seized	advmod
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 seized	discourse
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bade	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bade	cc
7	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bade	obj
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bade	xcomp
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tie	cc
12	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bring	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 labourer	nmod:poss
14	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tie	obj
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 tie	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tie	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 set	cc
21	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bring	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 fire	case
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 burnt	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 labourer	det
28	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 burnt	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 burnt	aux:pass
30	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 set	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 ashes	case
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 burnt	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	last		then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	bade	past	nixies = nixy				tree rules
3	bring	infinitive	wood				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4	tie	infinitive	last's labourer			to the wood; fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent labourer=Patient to wood=Co-Patient
5	set	infinitive	the wood	fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on fire=Destination
6	burnt	past · passive	the labourer			to ashes	tree rules

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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