Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 122
Then the Tsar gave the young man half his power and half his kingdom, but the merchants departed in their ships, with their nephew on board.
Who acts: Tsar, merchants · What happens: give, depart · To what, where: young man, ships
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, merchants), 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 | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 power | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 power | nmod:poss |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kingdom | cc |
| 12 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 14 kingdom | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 power | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 departed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 departed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 merchants | det |
| 18 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 departed | nsubj |
| 19 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 ships | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ships | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 departed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 nephew | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 nephew | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 departed | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 board | case |
| 28 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nephew | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Tsar | the young man man's power and man's kingdom | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | depart | past | the merchants | merchants's ships | with merchants's nephew on board | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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