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title: Me my brothers took and slew, In the ditch my body threw, For the ho… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Me my brothers took and slew, In the ditch my body threw, For the hog shot down by me, That rooted up the tree! Who acts: Me, body, hog, That. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 40

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Me my brothers took and slew, In the ditch my body threw, For the hog shot down by me, That rooted up the tree!

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**Who acts:** Me, body, hog, That · **What happens:** take, slay, throw, shoot down, root up · **To what, where:** ditch, tree

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me, body, hog, That), 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:pg29672:18:40
# text = Me my brothers took and slew, In the ditch my body threw, For the hog shot down by me, That rooted up the tree!
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	iobj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	In	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rooted	root	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Me |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slay** | past | Me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **throw** | past | my body |  |  | the ditch |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in ditch=Destination |
| 4 | **shoot down** | past | the hog |  |  |  |  | by me | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by i=Destination |
| 5 | **root up** | past | That | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

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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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