Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 117
Let the sabre belong to him who will cut this corpse's head off!"
Who acts: you, sabre · What happens: let, belong, cut off · To what, where: moujik, head
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 (you, sabre), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sabre | det |
| 3 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belong | nsubj |
| 4 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 belong | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | advcl |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 corpse | det |
| 11 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 corpse | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 cut | compound:prt |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | belong | present | the sabre | moujik | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut off | future | this corpse's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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