Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 26
On the way he heard that his brother had grown rich, and the farther he went the more he heard of his brother's wealth.
Who acts: man, brother · What happens: hear, grow, go · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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, brother), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 grown | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grown | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grown | aux |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grown | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 farther | det |
| 15 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 more | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 went | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wealth | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 brother | case |
| 26 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | man | the way | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect | man's brother | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | man | of man's brother's wealth | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of wealth=Stimulus |
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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