Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 103
After the funeral the old man invited him to his house, to take part in the feast in memory of the dead.
Who acts: old man · What happens: invite, take · To what, where: funeral, part, feast
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 (old man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 funeral | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 funeral | det |
| 3 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invited | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invited | nsubj |
| 7 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 invited | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invited | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 invited | parataxis |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 feast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feast | det |
| 18 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 memory | case |
| 20 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dead | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dead | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 memory | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | the old man | funeral | after the funeral | to man's house | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | part | the feast | in memory of the dead | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in feast=Location |
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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