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title: Now when this old man was at the point of death, he divided all he h… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when this old man was at the point of death, he divided all he had among his sons, and gave to each of the forty a horse; but when he came to the forty-first he found he had no more horses left, so the forty-first brother had to be content with a foal. Who acts: old man, man, first brother. A se
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 151

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Now when this old man was at the point of death, he divided all he had among his sons, and gave to each of the forty a horse; but when he came to the forty-first he found he had no more horses left, so the forty-first brother had to be content with a foal.

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**Who acts:** old man, man, first brother · **What happens:** be, divide, have, give, come, find · **To what, where:** point, all, each, forty, more horses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. 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, man, first brother), 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:pg29672:24:151
# text = Now when this old man was at the point of death, he divided all he had among his sons, and gave to each of the forty a horse; but when he came to the forty-first he found he had no more horses left, so the forty-first brother had to be content with a foal.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	advmod	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	ccomp	_	_
45	no	no	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	amod	_	_
47	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
48	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
52	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	55	amod	_	_
55	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	cop	_	_
59	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	xcomp	_	_
60	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this old man |  |  | the point |  | of death | tree rules |
| 2 | **divide** | past | man | all |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | man |  |  |  |  | among man's sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | man *not said here* |  | each |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** | past | man |  |  | the forty |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forty=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **find** | past | man |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | man | more horses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 8 | **leave** | participle |  | more horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **have** | past | the first brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | to-infinitive | the first brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a foal; content *property* | tree rules |

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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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