Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 130
Then they gave the man his sack and his ram, and he went home, but it was a long, long time before the Jews forgot those henchmen.
Who acts: henchmen, man, drum, Jews · What happens: give, go, be, forget · To what, where: man, long long time, henchmen
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 (henchmen, man, drum, Jews), 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 | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sack | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ram | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ram | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sack | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 time | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 time | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 time | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 time | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 forgot | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Jews | det |
| 27 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 forgot | nsubj |
| 28 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | advcl |
| 29 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 henchmen | det |
| 30 | henchmen | henchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 forgot | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | henchmen = henchman | the man man's sack and man's ram | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | man | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | drum | a long long time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | the Jews | that henchmen | 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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