Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 213
Melania makes a little speech to the young couple, ending her recommendation to get married with the words:--
Who acts: Melania · What happens: make, end, marry, recommend · To what, where: little speech, recommendation
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Melania), 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 | Melania | Melania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 speech | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speech | amod |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 couple | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 couple | amod |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ending | punct |
| 11 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 makes | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 recommendation | nmod:poss |
| 13 | recommendation | recommendation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ending | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 married | mark |
| 15 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ending | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 words | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 words | det |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 married | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Melania | a little speech | to the young couple | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Product | |||
| 2 | end | gerund | Melania not said here | Melania's recommendation | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality recommendation=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | Melania not said here | with the words | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: with word=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | recommend | Melania | nom recommendation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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