Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 69
His father had died, and he was lord over his whole inheritance.
Who acts: father, Prince · What happens: die, lor, inherit · To what, where: father, whole inheritance
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 (father, Prince), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | aux |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lord | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lord | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lord | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lord | aux:pass |
| 9 | lord | lor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 died | conj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 inheritance | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 inheritance | amod |
| 13 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lord | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · perfect | Prince's father | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | lor | past · passive | father | Prince's whole inheritance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | inherit | Prince | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=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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