Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 1
Once upon a time a rich man and a poor man had a field in common, and they sowed it with the same seed at the same time.
Who acts: rich man, man · What happens: have, sow · To what, where: field, common
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich man, man), 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 | 12 had | 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 | 12 had | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 man | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 common | case |
| 16 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 had | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sowed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sowed | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sowed | nsubj |
| 20 | sowed | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sowed | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 seed | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 seed | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 seed | amod |
| 25 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sowed | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seed | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a rich man and a poor man | a field | common | time | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient | |
| 2 | sow | past | man | field | with the same seed at the same time | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with seed=Theme |
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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