Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 51

And he answered, "Let him be tied to the tails of four wild horses, and drive them into the endless steppe that they may tear him to pieces there, and the ravens and crows may come and pick his bones."

Who acts: death, sons, ravens · What happens: answer, let, tie, drive, tear, come · To what, where: death, sons, endless steppe, bones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, sons, ravens), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
6	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Let	obj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 tied	aux:pass
9	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Let	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 tails	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tails	det
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tied	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 horses	case
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 horses	nummod
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 horses	amod
16	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tails	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drive	cc
19	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drive	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 steppe	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 steppe	det
23	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 steppe	amod
24	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 tear	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tear	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tear	aux
28	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 drive	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tear	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 pieces	case
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tear	obl
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 tear	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 come	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ravens	det
36	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 come	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 crows	cc
38	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ravens	conj
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 come	aux
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 pick	cc
42	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 come	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 bones	nmod:poss
44	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pick	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	death				tree rules
2	let in a quote	infinitive		death			tree rules
3	tie in a quote	infinitive · passive	death not said here			to the tails of four wild horses	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: to tail=Co-Patient
4	drive in a quote	infinitive		sons = son	the endless steppe		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into steppe=Trajectory
5	tear in a quote	may	sons = son	death	there	to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result
6	come in a quote	may	the ravens and crows				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pick in a quote	infinitive	the ravens and crows not said here	death's bones			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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