Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 34
I've sacrificed more than this before, so let this go too!" and he took the steer and slaughtered it for the eagle.
Who acts: I, this, man · What happens: sacrifice, let, go, take, slaughter · To what, where: more, this, steer
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sacrificed | aux |
| 3 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 sacrificed | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 more | obl |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 sacrificed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sacrificed | parataxis |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sacrificed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 steer | det |
| 20 | steer | steer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slaughtered | cc |
| 22 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slaughtered | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 eagle | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eagle | det |
| 26 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slaughtered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sacrificed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sacrifice | present · perfect | I | more | before property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent more=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | this not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | past | man | the steer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steer=Theme | ||||
| 5 | slaughter in a quote | past | man not said here | steer | for the eagle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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