Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 7

Let us pull up that oak, and whichever of us pitches it farthest shall have the hare."

Who acts: you, us, whichever, farthest · What happens: let, pull up, pitch, have · To what, where: us, oak, hare

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, whichever, farthest), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pull	compound:prt
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 oak	det
6	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pitches	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pitches	cc
9	whichever	whichever	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pitches	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 whichever	nmod
12	pitches	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pitches	obj
14	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 have	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pitches	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hare	det
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us	tree rules
2	pull up	infinitive	us not said here	that oak	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Theme
3	pitch	present	whichever of us	oak	tree rules
4	have	shall	farthest	the hare	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=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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