Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 154

Now those people who were ploughing there were his own brethren, but he did not know that they were his brethren.

Who acts: people, brethren · What happens: plough, be, not know · To what, where: brethren · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, brethren), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 were	advmod
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 were	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ploughing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ploughing	aux
6	ploughing	plough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 people	acl:relcl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brethren	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brethren	amod
11	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 were	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 know	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 were	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 brethren	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 brethren	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 brethren	cop
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brethren	nmod:poss
22	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 know	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	plough	past · progressive	that people				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	that people		there	now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	brethren				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	people	brethren's brethren			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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