Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 143
They brought up Tremsin until he became a youth, and then they gave him a horse, set him upon it, and said to him, "Now go out into the wide world and search for thy father and thy mother!"
Who acts: bandits, eagle · What happens: bring up, become, give, set, say, go out · To what, where: Tremsin, youth, horse, eagle, wide world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bandits, eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 brought | compound:prt |
| 4 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 became | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 gave | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gave | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 30 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 go | advmod |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 go | advmod |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 world | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 world | det |
| 35 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 world | amod |
| 36 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 go | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 search | cc |
| 38 | search | search | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | conj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 father | case |
| 40 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 father | nmod:poss |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 search | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 mother | cc |
| 43 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 mother | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 father | conj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | bandits = bandit | Tremsin | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tremsin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | past | eagle | a youth | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | bandits = bandit | a horse | eagle | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme | ||
| 4 | set | infinitive | bandits = bandit not said here | eagle | upon horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon it=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | go out in a quote | infinitive | the wide world | now | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | search in a quote | infinitive | for thy father and thy mother | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for father=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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