Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 11

Once upon a time, long long ago, beyond the times that we can call to mind, ere yet our great-grandfathers or their grandfathers had been born into the world, there lived a poor man and his wife, and they had one only son, who was not as an only son ought to be to his old father and mother.

Who acts: we, grandfathers, one son · What happens: call, mind, bear, live, have, not be · To what, where: times, great grandfathers, world, poor man, one son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, grandfathers, one son), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 ago	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ago	punct
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ago	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ago	advmod
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	37 lived	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ago	punct
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	12 times	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 times	det
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lived	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 call	obj
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 call	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 call	aux
16	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 times	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 mind	mark
18	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 call	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 born	punct
20	ere	ere	ADV	_	21 yet	advmod
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 born	advmod
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 grandfathers	nmod:poss
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grandfathers	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 great	punct
25	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 born	nsubj:pass
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 grandfathers	cc
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 grandfathers	nmod:poss
28	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grandfathers	conj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 born	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 born	aux:pass
31	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 call	advcl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 born	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 times	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 lived	expl
37	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 man	det
39	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 man	amod
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lived	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wife	cc
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 wife	nmod:poss
43	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 man	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 had	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lived	conj
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 son	nummod
49	only	only	ADV	_	50 son	advmod
50	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 father	punct
52	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 father	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 father	cop
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 father	advmod
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	65 father	mark
56	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 son	det
57	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 son	amod
58	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 father	nsubj
59	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 father	aux
60	to	to	PART	_	65 father	mark
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	65 father	cop
62	to	to	ADP	_	65 father	case
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 father	nmod:poss
64	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 father	amod
65	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 son	appos
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 mother	cc
67	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 father	conj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	can	we	the times				tree rules
2	mind	to-infinitive	we not said here					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	bear	past · perfect · passive		our great grandfathers or grandfathers's grandfathers	the world	yet		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	live	past		a poor man and _'s wife	there	time	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
5	have	past	grandfathers = grandfather	one son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
6	not is	ought · past	one son				to _'s old father and mother	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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