Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 53
Their father divided all his goods among them and died, and the three brothers went out into the world to seek their fortunes.
Who acts: father, three brothers · What happens: divide, die, go out, seek · To what, where: goods, world, fortunes
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 (father, three brothers), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 divided | nsubj |
| 3 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 goods | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 goods | nmod:poss |
| 6 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 divided | obj |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 divided | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 died | cc |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brothers | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 brothers | nummod |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seek | mark |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seek | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | fools's father | father's goods | among fools = fool | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | past | fools's father not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | go out | past | the three brothers | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | the three brothers not said here | fools's fortunes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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