Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 157

We'll saddle him with a task he is unable to do, and then our master will drive him away."--So they went to their master and said, "Tremsin has a feather of the Bird Zhar, and he says that if he likes he can get the Bird Zhar itself."

Who acts: We, fellow, master, servants, Tremsin · What happens: saddle, be, do, drive away, go, say · To what, where: fellow, master, feather, Bird Zhar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, fellow, master, servants), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saddle	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 saddle	aux
3	saddle	saddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saddle	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 task	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 task	det
7	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unable	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 unable	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 unable	cop
10	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saddle	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 unable	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drive	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 drive	advmod
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 master	nmod:poss
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 drive	aux
19	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 unable	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drive	obj
21	away	away	ADV	_	19 drive	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
25	So	so	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saddle	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 master	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 has	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 has	punct
35	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 has	nsubj
36	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 said	ccomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 feather	det
38	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 has	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Zhar	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Zhar	det
41	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Zhar	compound
42	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 feather	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 says	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 says	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 says	nsubj
46	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 has	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 get	mark
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 likes	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 likes	nsubj
50	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 get	advcl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 get	nsubj
52	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 get	aux
53	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 says	ccomp
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Zhar	det
55	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Zhar	compound
56	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 get	obj
57	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	56 Zhar	nmod:unmarked
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saddle	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 saddle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	saddle	future	We	fellow				tree rules
2	is	present	fellow				with a task; unable property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	fellow not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drive away	future	our master	fellow		then	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	go in a quote	past	servants = servant		servants's master			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	servants = servant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	have	present	Tremsin	a feather of the Bird Zhar				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
8	say speech: assert	present	fellow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	like a condition, not said to happen	present	fellow					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
10	get	can	fellow	the Bird Zhar master				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer zhar=Stimulus

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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