Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 6

Then all the brothers came together, and the old man told them what God had done for him.

Who acts: brothers, old man, God · What happens: come together, tell, do · To what, where: brothers · 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 (brothers, old man, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 brothers	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	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 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 done	obj
15	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 done	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 done	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come together	past	all brothers		then	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old man	brothers = brother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect	God			for man	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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