Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 2
But God prospered the poor man's labour and made his seed to grow, but the rich man's seed did not grow.
Who acts: God, seed · What happens: prosper, make, grow, not grow · To what, where: labour, seed
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 (God, seed), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 prospered | cc |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 prospered | nsubj |
| 3 | prospered | prosper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 labour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prospered | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prospered | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 seed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 grow | mark |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grow | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 grow | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 man | case |
| 21 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grow | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 grow | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 grow | advmod |
| 24 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prospered | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prospered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prosper | past | God | the poor man's labour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | God not said here | God's seed | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product | ||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | God not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not grow | past · do-support | the rich man's seed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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