Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 44

Then the bullock said to them, "I'll lead you to a hut close to the sea, and in that hut you must live, and you must take and slay me."

Who acts: bullock, woods · What happens: say, lead, live, take, slay · To what, where: woods, hut, bullock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (bullock, woods), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bullock	det
3	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lead	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lead	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lead	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lead	aux
11	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 lead	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 hut	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lead	obl
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hut	amod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 live	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 live	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hut	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 hut	det
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 live	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 live	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 live	aux
27	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 take	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 take	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 take	aux
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 slay	cc
34	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 take	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 slay	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bullock		woods = wood		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lead in a quote	future	the bullock = bullock	woods = wood		a hut		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to hut=Destination
3	live in a quote	must	woods = wood			that hut		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location
4	take in a quote	must	woods = wood					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	slay in a quote	infinitive	woods = wood not said here	the bullock = bullock				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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