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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

nsubjccconjcaseoblmarkadvmodnsubjadvclobjaclcaseoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctpunctoblpunctnmod:possobjpunctconjobjmarknsubjadvclpunctccparataxisadvmoddetobjnsubjcopacl:relclcaseamodoblpunctpunctrootTheyPRONcutVERBandCCONJhackedVERBatADPitPRONtillSCONJsuddenlyADVtheyPRONheardVERBsomethingPRONcallingVERBtoADPthemPRONfromADPtheDETmiddleNOUNofADPtheDETfishNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTHoPROPN!PUNCTmyPRONbrothersNOUN!PUNCThackVERBfishNOUNifSCONJyouPRONlikeVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJhackVERBnotPARTthatDETfleshNOUNwhichPRONisAUXfullADJofADPChristianADJbloodNOUN!PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 cutnsubj
2cutcutVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3andandCCONJ_4 hackedcc
4hackedhackVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 cutconj
5atatADP_6 itcase
6ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 hackedobl
7tilltillSCONJ_10 heardmark
8suddenlysuddenlyADV_10 heardadvmod
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 heardnsubj
10heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 hackedadvcl
11somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind10 heardobj
12callingcallVERBVerbForm=Ger11 somethingacl
13totoADP_14 themcase
14themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 callingobl
15fromfromADP_17 middlecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 middledet
17middlemiddleNOUNNumber=Sing12 callingobl
18ofofADP_20 fishcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 fishdet
20fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing17 middlenmod
21,,PUNCT_23 Hopunct
22""PUNCT_23 Hopunct
23HoHoPROPNNumber=Sing10 heardobl
24!!PUNCT_2 cutpunct
25mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 brothersnmod:poss
26brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur2 cutobj
27!!PUNCT_28 hackpunct
28hackhackVERBVerbForm=Inf2 cutconj
29fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing28 hackobj
30ififSCONJ_32 likemark
31youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs32 likensubj
32likelikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 hackadvcl
33,,PUNCT_35 hackpunct
34butbutCCONJ_35 hackcc
35hackhackVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 cutparataxis
36notnotPARTPolarity=Neg35 hackadvmod
37thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem38 fleshdet
38fleshfleshNOUNNumber=Sing35 hackobj
39whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel41 fullnsubj
40isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin41 fullcop
41fullfullADJDegree=Pos38 fleshacl:relcl
42ofofADP_44 bloodcase
43ChristianChristianADJDegree=Pos44 bloodamod
44bloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing41 fullobl
45!!PUNCT_35 hackpunct
46""PUNCT_35 hackpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1cutpresentfishes = fishmy brotherstree rules
2hackparticiplefishes = fish not said hereat whalevn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
3hearpastfishes = fishsomethingHo obl; suddenly propertyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4call speech: expressgerundfishes = fishthe middle of the fishvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
5hack in a quoteinfinitivefishes = fish not said herefishvn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Product
6like a condition, not said to happen, in a quotepresentfishes = fishvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7not hack in a quoteinfinitivethat fleshvn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Product
8is in a quotepresentthat fleshof Christian blood; full propertytree 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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