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title: But God prospered the poor man's labour and made his seed to grow, b… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But God prospered the poor man's labour and made his seed to grow, but the rich man's seed did not grow. Who acts: God, seed. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 2

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But God prospered the poor man's labour and made his seed to grow, but the rich man's seed did not grow.

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**Who acts:** God, seed · **What happens:** prosper, make, grow, not grow · **To what, where:** labour, seed

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, seed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:21:2
# text = But God prospered the poor man's labour and made his seed to grow, but the rich man's seed did not grow.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prosper** | past | God | the poor man's labour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | God *not said here* | God's seed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **grow** | past · do-support | the rich man's seed |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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