Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 85

I will not sit on this mare, for 'twould be to my shame.

Who acts: I · What happens: not sit, be

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (I), 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	4 sit	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 mare	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 mare	det
7	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shame	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	15 shame	case
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 shame	punct
11	twould	twould	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 shame	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 shame	cop
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 shame	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shame	nmod:poss
15	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	future	I					on this mare	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mare=Location
2	is							for my shame	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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