Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 26

We'll have prayers in church for our father though we sell our last sheep to pay for them," cried they.

Who acts: We, prayers · What happens: have, sell, pay, cry · To what, where: prayers, church, last sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, prayers), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 church	case
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 church	nmod
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 sell	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sell	nsubj
12	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	advcl
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sheep	nmod:poss
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sheep	amod
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pay	mark
17	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sell	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pay	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	future	We	prayers	church for our father		tree rules
2	sell	present	we	our last sheep			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
3	pay	to-infinitive	we not said here			for church	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme
4	cry speech: express in a quote	past	prayers = prayer				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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