Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 191
When the poor brother came to the rich brother's, he lost no time in crossing his threshold, and said, "Hail, my brother!"--"Good health to thee also!" replied the rich man, "why hast thou come hither?
Who acts: poor brother, brother, time, Hail, thou · What happens: come, lose, cross, say, reply · To what, where: threshold, rich man · 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 (poor brother, brother, time, Hail), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 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 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 crossing | mark |
| 17 | crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 threshold | nmod:poss |
| 19 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crossing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hail | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Hail | punct |
| 25 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 replied | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Hail | appos |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 health | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 health | punct |
| 33 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 health | amod |
| 34 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Hail | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 thee | case |
| 36 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 health | nmod |
| 37 | also | also | ADV | _ | 40 replied | advmod |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 also | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 replied | punct |
| 40 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 42 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 man | amod |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 replied | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 come | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 come | punct |
| 46 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 come | advmod |
| 47 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 come | aux |
| 48 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 49 come | nsubj |
| 49 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 replied | conj |
| 50 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 49 come | advmod |
| 51 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the poor brother | to the rich brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | brother | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cross | gerund | no time not said here | brother's threshold | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | brother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: ask | past | Hail and Good health to thee | the rich man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present | thou | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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