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title: Then she said, "I will swear that thou didst save me from death," fo… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she said, "I will swear that thou didst save me from death," for she was sore afraid of the lackey. Who acts: sword, thou. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 78

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Then she said, "I will swear that thou didst save me from death," for she was sore afraid of the lackey.

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**Who acts:** sword, thou · **What happens:** say, swear, do, save, be · **To what, where:** sword, death · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, thou), 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:pg29672:6:78
# text = Then she said, "I will swear that thou didst save me from death," for she was sore afraid of the lackey.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lackey	lackey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | sword |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **swear** *in a quote* | future | sword |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | sword |  | death |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from death=Source |
| 5 | **is** | past | sword |  |  |  |  | of the lackey; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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