Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 3
Then the rich man claimed that part of the field where the grain had sprung up, and said to the poor man, "Look now! 'tis my seed that has prospered, and not thine!"
Who acts: rich man, seed · What happens: claim, spring up, say, look, prosper · To what, where: part, grain, poor man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 claimed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 claimed | nsubj |
| 5 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 part | mark |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 claimed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 sprung | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grain | det |
| 13 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sprung | aux |
| 15 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 field | acl:relcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 sprung | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 claimed | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Look | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Look | punct |
| 26 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | conj |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 Look | advmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 Look | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Look | punct |
| 30 | tis | tis | ADP | _ | 32 seed | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 seed | nmod:poss |
| 32 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Look | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 prospered | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 prospered | aux |
| 35 | prospered | prosper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 seed | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 thine | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 thine | cc |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 thine | advmod |
| 39 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 claimed | obj |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 39 thine | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 thine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | the rich man | part of the field | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spring up | past · perfect · passive | the grain | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the poor man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | now | tis my seed | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | prosper in a quote | present · perfect | my seed | vn exist-47.1 «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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