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title: I've sacrificed more than this before, so let this go too!" and he t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I've sacrificed more than this before, so let this go too!" and he took the steer and slaughtered it for the eagle. Who acts: I, this, man. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 34

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I've sacrificed more than this before, so let this go too!" and he took the steer and slaughtered it for the eagle.

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**Who acts:** I, this, man · **What happens:** sacrifice, let, go, take, slaughter · **To what, where:** more, this, steer

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, man), 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:pg29672:24:34
# text = I've sacrificed more than this before, so let this go too!" and he took the steer and slaughtered it for the eagle.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	steer	steer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sacrifice** | present · perfect | I | more |  |  |  | before *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | past | man | the steer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steer=Theme |
| 5 | **slaughter** *in a quote* | past | man *not said here* | steer |  |  |  | for the eagle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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