--- title: Look now, if we can send him away, let us send him away; if we can h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Look now, if we can send him away, let us send him away; if we can hire him out, let us hire him out; perchance other folk may be able to do more with him than we can." Who acts: you, we, us, perchance other folk. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, us, perchance other folk), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:2:21 # text = Look now, if we can send him away, let us send him away; if we can hire him out, let us hire him out; perchance other folk may be able to do more with him than we can." 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 hire hire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 hire hire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 30 perchance perchance ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 41 than than SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | now | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **send away** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | we | last | | | | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **send away** | infinitive | us *not said here* | last | | | | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **hire out** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | we | last | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | we *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hire out** | infinitive | us *not said here* | last | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 8 | **is** | may | perchance other folk | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **do** | to-infinitive | perchance other folk *not said here* | | | | | with last | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/22/) - ↑ back to [Oh: the Tsar of the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/2/)