Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 9
Then he took leave of his wife and children, and went straight out into the wide world to seek the Wind on the open steppe.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, go, seek · To what, where: leave, wide world, Wind, open steppe
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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 children | cc |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wife | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 out | advmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 world | amod |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Wind | det |
| 22 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 steppe | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 steppe | det |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 steppe | amod |
| 26 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | leave of man's wife and children | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | man not said here | the wide world | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | man not said here | the Wind | the open steppe | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme on steppe=Location |
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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