Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 53

So he went toward that tsardom, and presently he saw not very far from the roadside, a swineherd tending swine; he was tending swine, but he himself sat upon a tomb. "

Who acts: Ivan, swineherd · What happens: go, not see, tend, sit · To what, where: tsardom, roadside, swine, tomb

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, swineherd), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 tsardom	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tsardom	det
6	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
9	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 saw	advmod
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 far	advmod
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 saw	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 roadside	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roadside	det
17	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swineherd	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 swineherd	det
20	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 roadside	appos
21	tending	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 swineherd	acl
22	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tending	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tending	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tending	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tending	aux
26	tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
27	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tending	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 sat	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sat	nsubj
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	30 he	nmod:unmarked
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 tomb	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tomb	det
35	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Ivan		that tsardom		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward tsardom=Initial_Location
2	not see	past	Ivan		the roadside	far, presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tend	gerund	a swineherd not said here	swine			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Theme
4	tend	past · progressive	Ivan	swine			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Theme
5	sit	past	Ivan		a tomb		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tomb=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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