Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 20
They made a rich banquet of funeral meats that all might know how much they mourned the old man; it was a splendid funeral.
Who acts: children, all, banquet · What happens: make, know, mourn, be · To what, where: rich banquet, funeral meats, much, splendid funeral · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (children, all, banquet), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 banquet | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 banquet | amod |
| 5 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 meats | case |
| 7 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meats | compound |
| 8 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 banquet | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 know | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meats | acl:relcl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mourned | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mourned | nsubj |
| 16 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mourned | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 funeral | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 funeral | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 funeral | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 funeral | det |
| 24 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 funeral | amod |
| 25 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | children = child | a rich banquet of funeral meats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset banquet=Product | ||||
| 2 | know | might | all | funeral meats | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mourn | past | children = child | much | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | banquet | a splendid funeral | 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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