Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 13

So the brothers tended their father, and the old man lived in clover, and was somebody.

Who acts: brothers, old man · What happens: tend, live, be · To what, where: father, clover, somebody

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, old 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	_	4 tended	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tended	nsubj
4	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tended	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tended	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 clover	case
14	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 somebody	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 somebody	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 somebody	cop
18	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tended	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tend	past	the brothers	brothers's father		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
2	live	past	the old man		clover	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clover=Location
3	is a	past		somebody		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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