Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 28
Then Daniel fell a-weeping, and lamented that God had given him nothing, though he had served for so many years.
Who acts: Daniel, God · What happens: fall, lament, give, serve · To what, where: weeping, nothing, Daniel
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daniel, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 weeping | det |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 a | punct |
| 6 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lamented | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lamented | cc |
| 9 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 given | mark |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 lamented | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | iobj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 given | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 served | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 served | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 served | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 served | aux |
| 20 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 given | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 many | advmod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 years | amod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 served | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Daniel | a weeping | then | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result | |||
| 2 | lament | past | Daniel not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | God | nothing | Daniel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme | |||
| 4 | serve | past · perfect | God | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
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.
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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