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title: Then the poor brother went out ploughing all day, but he neither wat… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the poor brother went out ploughing all day, but he neither watered his oxen nor gave them anything to eat. Who acts: poor brother, brother. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 186

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Then the poor brother went out ploughing all day, but he neither watered his oxen nor gave them anything to eat.

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**Who acts:** poor brother, brother · **What happens:** go out, plough, water, give, eat · **To what, where:** oxen, anything

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brother, 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:pg29672:3:186
# text = Then the poor brother went out ploughing all day, but he neither watered his oxen nor gave them anything to eat.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	ploughing	plough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the poor brother |  |  |  | then |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **plough** | gerund | the poor brother *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **water** | past | brother | brother's oxen |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ox=Destination |
| 4 | **give** | past | brother *not said here* | anything | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient anything=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | brother *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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