Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 7
When his master's wheat was in the stalk, his was already in the ear, and when his master's wheat was in the ear, his own wheat was already ripe. "
Who acts: wheat, own wheat · What happens: be · To what, where: stalk, ear
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 (wheat, own wheat), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 stalk | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wheat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 master | case |
| 5 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stalk | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stalk | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stalk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stalk | det |
| 9 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ear | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ear | cop |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 ear | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ear | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ear | det |
| 16 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stalk | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ear | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ear | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 ear | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wheat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 master | case |
| 23 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ear | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ear | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 ear | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ear | det |
| 27 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stalk | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ripe | punct |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wheat | nmod:poss |
| 30 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wheat | amod |
| 31 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ripe | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 ripe | cop |
| 33 | already | already | ADV | _ | 34 ripe | advmod |
| 34 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ear | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 ear | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 stalk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | youth's master's wheat | the stalk and youth's ear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | youth's master's wheat not said here | youth's ear | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | youth's master's wheat | the ear | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | youth's own wheat | ripe property | tree rules |
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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