Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 101
Many a defunct person of quality have I buried in my time, but I never got so from anyone before."
Who acts: I · What happens: bury, not get · To what, where: Many defunct person, anyone
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 person | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 3 | defunct | defunct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 person | amod |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 quality | case |
| 6 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 person | nmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 buried | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 buried | nsubj |
| 9 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 time | nmod:poss |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 got | advmod |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 buried | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 anyone | case |
| 20 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 got | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 buried | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present · perfect · passive | a Many defunct person of quality | time | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get | past | I | anyone | before property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from anyone=Destination |
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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