Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 142
So he climbed up the tree and brought down the lad, and they nurtured him and gave him the name of Tremsin.
Who acts: eagle, bandits · What happens: climb up, bring down, nurture, give, name · To what, where: tree, lad, eagle, name, Tremsin
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 (eagle, bandits), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 brought | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lad | det |
| 11 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nurtured | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nurtured | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nurtured | nsubj |
| 15 | nurtured | nurture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nurtured | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nurtured | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Tremsin | case |
| 23 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | eagle | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring down | past | eagle not said here | the lad | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lad=Theme | ||||
| 3 | nurture | past | bandits = bandit | eagle | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | past | bandits = bandit not said here | the name of Tremsin | eagle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 5 | name | Tremsin | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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