Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 155
One of them was a Russian, the other a Tartar; both were rich.
Who acts: One, both · What happens: be
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 (One, both), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Russian | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Russian | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Russian | det |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 other | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Russian | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Tartar | det |
| 11 | Tartar | Tartar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 other | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 rich | punct |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 rich | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rich | cop |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Russian | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Russian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One of merchants | the other obl; russian property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | both | rich property | tree rules |
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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