Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 7
Then the man went home, called together his wife and children, put up the few old clothes that still remained in his wardrobe, and went on to the next village, carrying his water-skin on his shoulders.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, call together, put up, remain, go on, carry · To what, where: wife, few old clothes, wardrobe, water skin, shoulders
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 | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 children | cc |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wife | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clothes | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clothes | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clothes | amod |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 put | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 remained | obj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 remained | advmod |
| 22 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wardrobe | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wardrobe | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remained | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 village | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 village | det |
| 32 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 village | amod |
| 33 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 carrying | punct |
| 35 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 went | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 skin | nmod:poss |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 skin | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 water | punct |
| 39 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 carrying | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 shoulders | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 42 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 carrying | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the man | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call together speech: assert | participle | man's wife and children | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put up | infinitive | the man not said here | the few old clothes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clothes=Goal | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | the few old clothes | man's wardrobe | still | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute | |||
| 5 | go on | past | the man not said here | to the next village | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | carry | gerund | the man not said here | man's water skin | man's shoulders | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
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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