Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 77

Swear that thou wilt say this thing!"

Who acts: you, thou · What happens: swear, say · To what, where: that, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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, thou), 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	Swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Swear	obj
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 say	nsubj
4	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Swear	ccomp
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 thing	det
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Swear	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Swear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	imperative	you not said here	that					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	future	thou	this thing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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