Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 186

Then the poor brother went out ploughing all day, but he neither watered his oxen nor gave them anything to eat.

Who acts: poor brother, brother · What happens: go out, plough, water, give, eat · To what, where: oxen, anything

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 (poor brother, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	ploughing	plough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ploughing	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watered	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 watered	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 watered	nsubj
13	neither	neither	ADV	_	14 watered	advmod
14	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 oxen	nmod:poss
16	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 watered	obj
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 gave	cc
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 watered	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 gave	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 anything	acl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the poor brother			then		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plough	gerund	the poor brother not said here			day		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	water	past	brother	brother's oxen			neither property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ox=Destination
4	give	past	brother not said here	anything	oxen = ox			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient anything=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	brother not said here	anything not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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