Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 16

But the rich man was not content that God should give him back his loan by blessing him in his flocks and herds, and in his children, and in his health, and in the blessed fruits of the earth.

Who acts: rich man, God, man · What happens: not be, give back, bless, loan · To what, where: loan, man, flocks

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 (rich man, God, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 content	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 content	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 content	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 content	advmod
7	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 give	mark
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 give	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 content	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	back	back	ADP	_	11 give	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 loan	nmod:poss
15	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 blessing	mark
17	blessing	bless	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 give	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 blessing	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 flocks	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 flocks	nmod:poss
21	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blessing	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 herds	cc
23	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flocks	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 children	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 children	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 children	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 children	nmod:poss
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 content	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 health	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 health	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 health	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 health	nmod:poss
33	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 content	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fruits	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fruits	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 fruits	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fruits	det
38	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fruits	amod
39	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 content	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 earth	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 earth	det
42	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fruits	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the rich man				content property	tree rules
2	give back	should	God	man's loan	man			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient loan=Theme
3	bless	gerund	God not said here	man		man's flocks and herds		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	loan		man					nom loan «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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