Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 17
He waited and waited for the poor man to come and pay him back his rouble, and at last he went to seek him. "
Who acts: God · What happens: wait, come, pay back, go, seek · To what, where: God, last
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 (God), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 waited | cc |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 waited | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pay | cc |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADP | _ | 12 pay | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rouble | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rouble | rouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 went | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seek | mark |
| 24 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seek | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | God | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | God not said here | for the poor man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | God not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pay back | infinitive | God not said here | God | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rouble=Asset | ||||
| 5 | go | past | God | last | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | seek | to-infinitive | God not said here | God | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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