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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 44

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Then the bullock said to them, "I'll lead you to a hut close to the sea, and in that hut you must live, and you must take and slay me."

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**Who acts:** bullock, woods · **What happens:** say, lead, live, take, slay · **To what, where:** woods, hut, bullock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (bullock, woods), 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:pg29672:5:44
# text = Then the bullock said to them, "I'll lead you to a hut close to the sea, and in that hut you must live, and you must take and slay me."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bullock |  | woods *= wood* |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lead** *in a quote* | future | the bullock *= bullock* | woods *= wood* |  | a hut |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to hut=Destination |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | must | woods *= wood* |  |  | that hut |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | must | woods *= wood* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **slay** *in a quote* | infinitive | woods *= wood* *not said here* | the bullock *= bullock* |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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