Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 34

Now this youth had three uncles, rich merchants, who sold all manner of merchandise, and went in ships to foreign lands, where they sold their goods and made their gains.

Who acts: youth, rich merchants, uncles · What happens: have, sell, go, make · To what, where: three uncles, manner, ships, goods, gains

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 (youth, rich merchants, uncles), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 uncles	nummod
6	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 merchants	punct
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 merchants	amod
9	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 uncles	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sold	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sold	nsubj
12	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 merchants	acl:relcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 manner	det
14	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sold	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 merchandise	case
16	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 manner	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sold	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 ships	case
21	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 went	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 lands	case
23	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lands	amod
24	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sold	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 sold	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sold	nsubj
28	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lands	acl:relcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 goods	nmod:poss
30	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	28 sold	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 made	cc
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sold	conj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 gains	nmod:poss
34	gains	gain	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	this youth	three uncles and rich merchants		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Patient
2	sell	past	rich merchants	all manner of merchandise				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
3	go	past	rich merchants not said here		ships		to foreign lands	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location
4	sell	past	uncles = uncle	uncles's goods				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
5	make	past	uncles = uncle not said here	uncles's gains				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gain=Product

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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