Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 67

Then he set off to seek the Wind again.

Who acts: man · What happens: set off, seek · To what, where: Wind

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seek	mark
6	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wind	det
8	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seek	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 seek	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	man				then		tree rules
2	seek	to-infinitive	man not said here	the Wind			again		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=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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