Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 36

Now the bullock was already nearing the sea. "

Who acts: bullock · What happens: near · To what, where: sea

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullock), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 nearing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bullock	det
3	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nearing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nearing	aux
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 nearing	advmod
6	nearing	near	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nearing	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 nearing	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 nearing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	near	past · progressive	the bullock	the sea			now		tree rules

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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