Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 96
When the moujik comes for his money, tell him I died this morning."
Who acts: moujik, you, I · What happens: come, tell, die · To what, where: moujik · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you, I), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 comes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moujik | det |
| 3 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 money | nmod:poss |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the moujik | for moujik's money | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | moujik | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | die | past | I | morning | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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