Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 3
So, no sooner did the old man appear than his eldest daughter-in-law came running out to meet him, and bade him welcome in God's name. "
Who acts: eldest law, God · What happens: do, appear, come, run out, meet, welcome · To what, where: old man, law, bade, name
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 (eldest law, God), 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 | _ | 9 appear | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 appear | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sooner | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 9 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 law | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 law | amod |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 law | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appear | ccomp |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 came | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 running | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 meet | mark |
| 22 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 running | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 meet | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 welcome | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 welcome | cc |
| 26 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 welcome | obl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bade | obj |
| 28 | welcome | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appear | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 name | case |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 name | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 God | case |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 welcome | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appear | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the old man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | appear | present | soon property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come | past | man's eldest law | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run out | gerund | man's eldest law not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | man's eldest law not said here | law | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | welcome | present | bade | God's name | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in name=Location | ||||
| 7 | name | God | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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