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title: I shall keep them till I die; but after my death consult together, a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall keep them till I die; but after my death consult together, and whosoever shall be found to have cherished me most and taken care of me and not grudged me a clean shirt now and then, or a crust of bread when I'm hungry, to him shall be given the greater part of my money. Who acts: I, my. A se
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 123

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I shall keep them till I die; but after my death consult together, and whosoever shall be found to have cherished me most and taken care of me and not grudged me a clean shirt now and then, or a crust of bread when I'm hungry, to him shall be given the greater part of my money.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** keep, die, consult, find, cherish, take · **To what, where:** children, whosoever, me, care, death

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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:pg29672:22:123
# text = I shall keep them till I die; but after my death consult together, and whosoever shall be found to have cherished me most and taken care of me and not grudged me a clean shirt now and then, or a crust of bread when I'm hungry, to him shall be given the greater part of my money.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
28	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	grudged	grudge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	50	mark	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	59	amod	_	_
59	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | shall | I | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **consult** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | after my death | together *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | shall · passive |  | whosoever |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **cherish** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 6 | **take** | participle |  | care |  |  |  | of me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of i=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **not** **grudge** | past |  | me |  |  | now | a crust of bread *obl* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **give** | shall · passive |  | death |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient part=Theme |
| 10 | **die** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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