Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 8
In the morning all the people assembled together and went to the field, and the rich man cried, "Speak, O God! whose field is this, the rich man's or the poor man's?"
Who acts: people, rich man, field · What happens: assemble, go, cry, speak, be · To what, where: field, God · 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 (people, rich man, field), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assembled | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 people | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 assembled | nsubj |
| 7 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 assembled | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 assembled | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 field | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 field | det |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 assembled | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Speak | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Speak | punct |
| 22 | Speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cried | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 God | punct |
| 24 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 25 God | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Speak | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 God | punct |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 field | nmod:poss |
| 28 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 man | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 man | cop |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 man | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 man | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 33 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 man | amod |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 man | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 man | case |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 man | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 38 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 man | amod |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Speak | obl |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 man | case |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 Speak | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | all people | morning | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | all people not said here | the field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the rich man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | God | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the rich man's poor man's field | 's the rich man's poor man | 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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