Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 30

The moment he had made up his mind to the sin, all of a sudden there arose a storm--such a tremendous one! the ship was on the point of sinking.

Who acts: merchant, moment, ship, point · What happens: make up, arise, be, sink, mind · To what, where: mind, storm, point

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 (merchant, moment, ship, point), 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	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arose	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 moment	acl:relcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sin	det
11	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 moment	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sudden	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sudden	det
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 all	nmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 arose	advmod
18	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 storm	det
20	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arose	obj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 storm	appos
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 point	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ship	det
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 point	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 point	cop
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 point	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 point	det
32	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arose	obl
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 sinking	mark
34	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 point	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make up	past · perfect	merchant	merchant's mind		to the sin	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
2	arise	past	the moment	a storm	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=Theme
3	is	past	the ship		the point		tree rules
4	sink	gerund	the point not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	mind		merchant				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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