Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 73

It is for him to keep thee, daddy!" said they; and then the other would say, "Nay, dad, but it is as much as we can do to keep ourselves."

Who acts: burden, sons, other, we · What happens: be, keep, say, do · To what, where: thee, ourselves · 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 (burden, sons, other, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 him	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 him	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 him	acl
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 keep	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 daddy	punct
9	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 him	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 say	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 say	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Nay	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Nay	punct
23	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	20 say	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dad	punct
25	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Nay	vocative
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 much	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 much	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 much	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 much	cop
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 say	ccomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 do	mark
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 much	acl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 keep	mark
37	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 do	advcl
38	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 keep	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	burden			for man	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here	thee			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	sons = son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	would	the other		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nay=Topic
5	is	present	burden			much property	tree rules
6	do	can	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	keep	to-infinitive	we not said here	ourselves			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme

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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