Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 56

So the old man went to live with his eldest son, and at first the eldest son treated him properly, and did reverence to his old father. "'

Who acts: old man, eldest son · What happens: go, live, treat, do · To what, where: man, reverence

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 (old man, eldest son), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 son	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 son	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 treated	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 treated	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 first	case
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 treated	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 son	det
17	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 son	amod
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 treated	nsubj
19	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 treated	obj
21	properly	properly	ADV	_	19 treated	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 did	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 did	cc
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
25	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 did	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 father	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 father	amod
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 did	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	to-infinitive	the old man not said here			with man's eldest son	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with son=Location
3	treat	past	the eldest son		man	properly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	do	past	the old man not said here	reverence		to man's old father	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Eventuality

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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