Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 72

Each of the four sons, one after the other, cast the burden of supporting him on one of the other brothers. "

Who acts: you, burden · What happens: cast, support · To what, where: burden, man

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 (you, burden), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 cast	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 sons	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sons	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sons	nummod
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Each	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sons	appos
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Each	punct
12	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 burden	det
14	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cast	obj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 supporting	mark
16	supporting	support	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 burden	acl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 supporting	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 supporting	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 brothers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brothers	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brothers	amod
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cast	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	imperative	you not said here	the burden					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Product
2	support	gerund	the burden not said here	man				on one of the other brothers	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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