Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 1

Once upon a time there dwelt two brethren in one village, and one brother was very, very rich, and the other brother was very, very poor.

Who acts: one brother, other brother · What happens: dwell, be · To what, where: two brethren, one village

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one brother, other 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 dwelt	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dwelt	advmod
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brethren	nummod
8	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dwelt	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 village	nummod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rich	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rich	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 brother	nummod
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rich	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rich	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	20 rich	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rich	punct
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 rich	advmod
20	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dwelt	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 poor	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 poor	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brother	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 brother	amod
25	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 poor	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 poor	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	30 poor	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 poor	punct
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 poor	advmod
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dwelt	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		two brethren	one village; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brethren=Location
2	is	past	one brother				rich property	tree rules
3	is	past	the other brother				poor property	tree rules

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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