Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 187
And next day the poor brother again went out to his oxen, but found them rolling on their sides on the ground.
Who acts: poor brother, oxen · What happens: go out, find, roll · To what, where: oxen, sides
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, oxen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:314): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 oxen | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 oxen | nmod:poss |
| 12 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 found | xcomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 sides | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sides | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rolling | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rolling | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the poor brother | again; day | to brother's oxen; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past | the poor brother not said here | oxen = ox | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | oxen = ox not said here | oxen's sides | on the ground | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on side=Source on ground=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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