Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 185
The rich man took the sack and the ram, and the poor man took the oxen and went out to the plough.
Who acts: rich man, poor man · What happens: take, go out · To what, where: sack, oxen
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 (rich man, poor man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ram | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ram | det |
| 9 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sack | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oxen | det |
| 17 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 plough | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plough | det |
| 23 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the rich man | the sack and the ram | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the poor man | the oxen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | the poor man not said here | to the plough; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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