Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 40
The Russian merchant had a service performed as a thank-offering to God, and next day the Tartar was baptized with all his household.
Who acts: Russian merchant, thank, household · What happens: have, perform, offer, baptize · To what, where: service, God, Tartar
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian merchant, thank, household), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 merchant | amod |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 service | det |
| 6 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 service | acl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 offering | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thank | det |
| 10 | thank | thank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offering | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 12 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 performed | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 God | case |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 offering | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 baptized | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 baptized | cc |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 baptized | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tartar | det |
| 20 | Tartar | Tartar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 baptized | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 baptized | aux:pass |
| 22 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 household | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 household | det:predet |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 household | nmod:poss |
| 26 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 baptized | obl:agent |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Russian merchant | a service | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Patient | ||||
| 2 | perform | participle | a service not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | offer | gerund | a thank | God | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to god=Goal | ||||
| 4 | baptize | past · passive | Tartar's household | the Tartar | day | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
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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