Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 17
All the people were called together and bore witness that they had treated their father well since he came back to them, so it was adjudged that they should divide the treasure amongst them.
Who acts: man, people · What happens: call together, bear, treat, come back, adjudge, divide · To what, where: people, witness, treasure
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 (man, people), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bore | cc |
| 8 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 9 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bore | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 treated | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 treated | aux |
| 13 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bore | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treated | obj |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 treated | advmod |
| 17 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 treated | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 back | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 adjudged | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 adjudged | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 adjudged | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 adjudged | aux:pass |
| 27 | adjudged | adjudge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 called | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 divide | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 divide | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 divide | aux |
| 31 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 adjudged | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 treasure | det |
| 33 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 divide | obj |
| 34 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 divide | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call together speech: assert | past · passive | all people | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | witness | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient | |||||
| 3 | treat | past · perfect · passive | people | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come back | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | adjudge | past · passive | witness | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | divide | should | people | the treasure | amongst children = child | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
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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