Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 22

Then he sent some of his people to his rich brother, and invited him to come and live with him.

Who acts: man · What happens: send, invite, come, live · To what, where: people, rich brother, man

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	3 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 people	det
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 people	nmod:poss
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 brother	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brother	amod
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 invited	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 invited	cc
14	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 invited	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 invited	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 live	cc
19	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 live	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	man	man's people	man's rich brother	then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme to brother=Destination
2	invite	past	man not said here	man				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	infinitive	man not said here				with man	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location

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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