Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 156
But the Russian got so utterly ruined by some business or other that he hadn't a single bit of property left.
Who acts: Russian · What happens: get, ruin, have, leave · To what, where: single bit
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 (Russian), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Russian | det |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ruined | advmod |
| 6 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 7 ruined | advmod |
| 7 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 business | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 business | det |
| 10 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruined | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 other | cc |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 business | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 other | advcl |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 bit | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 18 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bit | amod |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 property | case |
| 21 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bit | nmod |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bit | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Russian | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ruin | participle | the Russian not said here | by some business; utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Russian | a single bit of property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | a single bit of property not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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