Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 110
So Marko the Rich was put in a coffin and taken into the church, and the moujik began reading psalms over him.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: put, take, begin, read · To what, where: Marko, coffin, church, psalms
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 Marko | advmod |
| 2 | Marko | Marko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rich | det |
| 4 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Marko | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 coffin | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coffin | det |
| 9 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 put | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 church | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 church | det |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moujik | det |
| 18 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 20 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | psalms | psalm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reading | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reading | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | Marko | a coffin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in coffin=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | the church | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into church=Destination | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the moujik | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | read | gerund | the moujik not said here | psalms | over moujik | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalm=Topic |
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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