Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 57

Tis but meet and right that we should give our father to eat and drink, and see that he has wherewithal to clothe him, and take care to patch up his things from time to time, and let him have clean new shirts on festivals," said the eldest son.

Who acts: Tis, we, FATHER, eldest son · What happens: meet, give, eat, drink, see, have · To what, where: right, father, wherewithal, care, clean new shirts, festivals · 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 (Tis, we, FATHER, 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	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 meet	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 meet	cc
3	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 said	ccomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 right	cc
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meet	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 give	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 right	ccomp
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 father	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drink	cc
15	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meet	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 has	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 see	ccomp
22	wherewithal	wherewithal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 clothe	mark
24	clothe	clothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wherewithal	acl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 clothe	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 take	cc
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 see	conj
29	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 patch	mark
31	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	advcl
32	up	up	ADP	_	28 take	compound:prt
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 things	nmod:poss
34	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 take	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 time	case
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 time	case
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 let	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 let	cc
41	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 meet	parataxis
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 let	obj
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 let	xcomp
44	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 shirts	amod
45	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 shirts	amod
46	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 have	obj
47	on	on	ADP	_	48 festivals	case
48	festivals	festival	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 shirts	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 let	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 let	punct
51	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 son	det
53	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	54 son	amod
54	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 said	nsubj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	meet	present	Tis	right			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Co-Agent
2	give	should	we	our father			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	we not said here	our father not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive	we not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	infinitive	Tis not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	present	Tis	wherewithal			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wherewithal=Patient
7	clothe	to-infinitive	Tis not said here	FATHER			vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	take up	infinitive	Tis not said here	care		time	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme thing=Destination
9	let	infinitive		FATHER			tree rules
10	have	infinitive	FATHER not said here	clean new shirts	festivals		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient
11	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the eldest son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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