Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 123
I shall keep them till I die; but after my death consult together, and whosoever shall be found to have cherished me most and taken care of me and not grudged me a clean shirt now and then, or a crust of bread when I'm hungry, to him shall be given the greater part of my money.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: keep, die, consult, find, cherish, take · To what, where: children, whosoever, me, care, death
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 consult | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 consult | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 death | nmod:poss |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 consult | obl |
| 13 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 consult | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 17 | whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 consult | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cherished | mark |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cherished | aux |
| 23 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 found | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 cherished | obj |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 cherished | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 taken | cc |
| 27 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 cherished | conj |
| 28 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taken | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 taken | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 grudged | cc |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 grudged | advmod |
| 33 | grudged | grudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | conj |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 grudged | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 shirt | det |
| 36 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 shirt | amod |
| 37 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grudged | obj |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 grudged | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 then | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 now | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 crust | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 crust | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 crust | det |
| 44 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grudged | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 bread | case |
| 46 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 crust | nmod |
| 47 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 50 hungry | mark |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 hungry | nsubj |
| 49 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 hungry | cop |
| 50 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 found | advcl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 given | punct |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 him | case |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 given | nsubj:pass |
| 54 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 given | aux |
| 55 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 56 given | aux:pass |
| 56 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 found | advcl |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 part | det |
| 58 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 59 part | amod |
| 59 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 given | obj |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 money | case |
| 61 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 money | nmod:poss |
| 62 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 part | nmod |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | shall | I | children = child | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | consult | infinitive | I not said here | after my death | together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | find | shall · passive | whosoever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | cherish | to-infinitive · perfect | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | take | participle | care | of me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | not grudge | past | me | now | a crust of bread obl | tree rules | |||
| 8 | is | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | give | shall · passive | death | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient part=Theme | |||||
| 10 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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