Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 131
So the man went home, and his wife and children saw him coming from afar. "
Who acts: man, wife · What happens: go, see, come · To what, where: man, afar
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 (man, wife), 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 | _ | 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 | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 children | cc |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wife | conj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 afar | case |
| 16 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the man | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man's wife and children | man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | man not said here | afar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial_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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