Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 155

He wouldn't come to us when we were poor and he was rich, because then he was ashamed to say that I was his brother, but now even he hasn't got so much as we have."

Who acts: God, we, I · What happens: not come, be, say, not get, have · To what, where: us, brother, much · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (God, we, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 poor	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 poor	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 poor	cop
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rich	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rich	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rich	cop
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 poor	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ashamed	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 ashamed	mark
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 ashamed	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ashamed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ashamed	cop
20	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ashamed	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 brother	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 brother	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brother	cop
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brother	nmod:poss
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 got	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 got	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 got	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 got	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 got	advmod
35	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 ashamed	parataxis
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 much	advmod
37	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 got	obj
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 have	mark
39	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
40	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 much	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not come	would	God		us			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location
2	is	past	we				poor property	tree rules
3	is	past	God				rich property	tree rules
4	is	past	God			then	ashamed property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	God not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	I	God's brother				tree rules
7	not get	present · perfect	God	much		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
8	have	present	we					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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