Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 2
They wandered on and on for twelve weeks, and at the end of the twelve weeks they came to a place where three roads met, and the elder brother said to the younger, "My brother, here our roads part.
Who acts: sons, three roads, elder brother, roads · What happens: wander, come, meet, say, part · To what, where: end, younger brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sons, three roads, elder brother, roads), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 weeks | case |
| 7 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 weeks | nummod |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wandered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 weeks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 weeks | det |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 weeks | nummod |
| 17 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 end | nmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 met | advmod |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 roads | nummod |
| 25 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 met | nsubj |
| 26 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 brother | det |
| 30 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brother | amod |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 brother | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 brother | det |
| 35 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 brother | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 younger | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 brother | punct |
| 38 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 brother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 part | punct |
| 41 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 part | advmod |
| 42 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 roads | nmod:poss |
| 43 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 part | nsubj |
| 44 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 brother | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | sons = son | week | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | sons = son | at the end of the twelve weeks | to a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | meet | past | three roads | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the elder brother | My younger brother and part | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | part in a quote | our roads | here | 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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