Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 11

He undid his water-skin, persuaded the Unlucky Days to get into it, tied it fast again and buried it on the bank close by the river.

Who acts: man · What happens: undo, persuade, get, tie, bury · To what, where: water skin, Unlucky Days, skin, bank

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 undid	nsubj
2	undid	undo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 skin	nmod:poss
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 undid	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 persuaded	punct
8	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 undid	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Days	det
10	Unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Days	amod
11	Days	Day	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 persuaded	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 persuaded	advcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 get	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tied	punct
17	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 undid	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tied	obj
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 tied	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	17 tied	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 buried	cc
22	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 undid	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 buried	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 bank	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bank	det
26	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 buried	obl
27	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 buried	xcomp
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 close	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 undid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undo	past	man	man's water skin				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	persuade	past	man not said here	the Unlucky Days				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Patient
3	get	to-infinitive	man not said here		skin			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
4	tie	past	man not said here	skin		again	fast property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	bury	past	man not said here	skin	the bank		close property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bank=Destination

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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