Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 62

So the eldest son repented him that he had said he would keep his father, and he began to grudge him every morsel of bread that he put in his mouth.

Who acts: eldest son, man · What happens: repent, say, keep, begin, grudge, put · To what, where: man, father, mouth · 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 (eldest son, man), 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 repented	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 repented	nsubj
5	repented	repent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 repented	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 repented	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 repented	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 grudge	mark
21	grudge	grudge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 grudge	obj
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 morsel	det
24	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grudge	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 bread	case
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 morsel	nmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 put	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grudge	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 mouth	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mouth	nmod:poss
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 repented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	repent	past	the eldest son	man		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	would	man	man's father		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
4	begin	past	man			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	grudge	to-infinitive	man not said here	man		tree rules
6	put	past	man		man's mouth	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mouth=Destination

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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