Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 82

Ivan drove the cattle into the pastures, but he himself perched on the top of a haystack while the cattle grazed.

Who acts: Ivan, cattle · What happens: drive, perch, graze · To what, where: cattle, pastures, top

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 (Ivan, cattle), 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	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cattle	det
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 pastures	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pastures	det
7	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drove	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perched	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 perched	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 perched	nsubj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	10 he	nmod:unmarked
12	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drove	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 haystack	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 haystack	det
18	haystack	haystack	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 grazed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cattle	det
21	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grazed	nsubj
22	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perched	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drive	past	Ivan	the cattle	the pastures	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme into pasture=Trajectory
2	perch	participle	Ivan		the top of a haystack	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
3	graze	past	the cattle			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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