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title: We'll have prayers in church for our father though we sell our last… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We'll have prayers in church for our father though we sell our last sheep to pay for them," cried they. Who acts: We, prayers. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 26

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We'll have prayers in church for our father though we sell our last sheep to pay for them," cried they.

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**Who acts:** We, prayers · **What happens:** have, sell, pay, cry · **To what, where:** prayers, church, last sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, prayers), 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:pg29672:23:26
# text = We'll have prayers in church for our father though we sell our last sheep to pay for them," cried they.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | We | prayers |  | church for our father |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | present | we | our last sheep |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for church | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | prayers *= prayer* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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