Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 64
They cut and hacked at it till suddenly they heard something calling to them from the middle of the fish, "Ho! my brothers! hack fish if you like, but hack not that flesh which is full of Christian blood!"
Who acts: fishes, flesh · What happens: cut, hack, hear, call, like, not hack · To what, where: brothers, something, fishes, middle, fish, flesh · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fishes, flesh), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hacked | cc |
| 4 | hacked | hack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cut | conj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hacked | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 heard | mark |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hacked | advcl |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 heard | obj |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 something | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 calling | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 middle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 middle | det |
| 17 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calling | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fish | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fish | det |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 middle | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ho | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ho | punct |
| 23 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cut | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 hack | punct |
| 28 | hack | hack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cut | conj |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hack | obj |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 like | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 like | nsubj |
| 32 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hack | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hack | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 hack | cc |
| 35 | hack | hack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | parataxis |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 hack | advmod |
| 37 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 flesh | det |
| 38 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hack | obj |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 full | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 full | cop |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 flesh | acl:relcl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 blood | case |
| 43 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 blood | amod |
| 44 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 full | obl |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 hack | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 hack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | fishes = fish | my brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hack | participle | fishes = fish not said here | at whale | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | fishes = fish | something | Ho obl; suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | call speech: express | gerund | fishes = fish | the middle of the fish | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | hack in a quote | infinitive | fishes = fish not said here | fish | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Product | ||||
| 6 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | fishes = fish | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | not hack in a quote | infinitive | that flesh | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Product | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | that flesh | of Christian blood; full property | tree rules |
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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