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title: Then give me of your tar to tar my sides, that the dogs and the sons… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then give me of your tar to tar my sides, that the dogs and the sons of dogs tear me not!"--"Take some," said the ox. Who acts: you, dogs, some. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 27

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Then give me of your tar to tar my sides, that the dogs and the sons of dogs tear me not!"--"Take some," said the ox.

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**Who acts:** you, dogs, some · **What happens:** give, tar, not tear, take, say · **To what, where:** me, sides, ox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dogs, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:14:27
# text = Then give me of your tar to tar my sides, that the dogs and the sons of dogs tear me not!"--"Take some," said the ox.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	tar	tar	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	tear	tear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  | then | of your tar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **tar** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my sides |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **tear** | present | the dogs and the sons of dogs | me |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location i=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | some | the ox |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ox=Topic |

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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.

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**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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