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title: Twas thou who didst me slay, And stowed my corpse away, For the hog… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas thou who didst me slay, And stowed my corpse away, For the hog shot down by me, That rooted up the tree! Who acts: Twas, hog. 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 46

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Twas thou who didst me slay, And stowed my corpse away, For the hog shot down by me, That rooted up the tree!

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**Who acts:** Twas, hog · **What happens:** do, slay, stow away, shoot down, root up · **To what, where:** me, corpse, 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 (Twas, hog), 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:pg29672:18:46
# text = Twas thou who didst me slay, And stowed my corpse away, For the hog shot down by me, That rooted up the tree!
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stowed	stow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rooted	root	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Twas | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | infinitive | Twas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stow away** | past | Twas *not said here* | my corpse |  |  |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme |
| 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 | Twas | 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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