Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 133
[59] Literally, "has bid to live long," a conventional euphemism for "has died." "
What happens: bid, live, die · To what, where: 59, conventional euphemism
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 59 | punct |
| 2 | 59 | 59 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 bid | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 59 | punct |
| 4 | Literally | literally | ADV | _ | 2 59 | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 59 | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bid | punct |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bid | aux |
| 8 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bid | xcomp |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 live | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 euphemism | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 euphemism | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 euphemism | det |
| 15 | conventional | conventional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 euphemism | amod |
| 16 | euphemism | euphemism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 died | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 died | punct |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 died | aux |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 euphemism | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bid | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bid | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid in a quote | present · perfect | 59 | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | a conventional euphemism | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | present · perfect | a conventional euphemism not said here | 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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