Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a parson who had a servant, and when this servant had served him faithfully for twelve years and upward, he came to the parson and said, "Let us now settle our accounts, master, and pay me what thou owest me.

Who acts: parson, thou, our · What happens: be, have, serve, come, say, let · To what, where: servant, us, accounts, parson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parson, thou, our), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 parson	det
8	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 parson	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 servant	det
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 served	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 served	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 served	advmod
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 servant	det
17	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 served	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 served	aux
19	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 served	obj
21	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	19 served	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 years	case
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 years	nummod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 served	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 upward	cc
26	upward	upward	ADV	_	24 years	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 parson	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 parson	det
32	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Let	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Let	punct
37	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	ccomp
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 Let	obj
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 settle	advmod
40	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 Let	advcl
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 accounts	nmod:poss
42	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 settle	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 master	punct
44	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 accounts	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 pay	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 pay	cc
47	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 Let	conj
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 pay	iobj
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 owest	obj
50	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	51 owest	nsubj
51	owest	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 pay	conj
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 owest	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past				there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a parson	a servant					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
3	serve	past · perfect · passive		this servant			year	faithfully property	tree rules
4	come	past	parson					to the parson	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parson=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	parson not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let in a quote	infinitive		us					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
7	settle in a quote	present		our accounts and master			now		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme account=Location
8	pay in a quote	infinitive			parson				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset
9	owe in a quote	present	thou	parson					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal i=Theme
10	account in a quote		our						nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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