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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 56

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So the old man went to live with his eldest son, and at first the eldest son treated him properly, and did reverence to his old father. "'

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**Who acts:** old man, eldest son · **What happens:** go, live, treat, do · **To what, where:** man, reverence

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, eldest son), 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:pg29672:22:56
# text = So the old man went to live with his eldest son, and at first the eldest son treated him properly, and did reverence to his old father. "'
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with man's eldest son | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with son=Location |
| 3 | **treat** | past | the eldest son |  | man |  |  | properly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | past | the old man *not said here* | reverence |  |  |  | to man's old father | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Eventuality |

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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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