Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 142
But in one of the variants of the story it is a "pope" or priest, who appears, and he immediately claims a share in the spoil.
Who acts: one, priest, Pope, story · What happens: be, appear, claim, vary · To what, where: pope, share, spoil · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (one, priest, Pope, story), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 pope | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pope | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 variants | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 variants | det |
| 6 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 variants | nmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pope | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pope | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pope | det |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 pope | punct |
| 14 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 pope | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 priest | cc |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pope | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appears | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 appears | nsubj |
| 20 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 priest | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 claims | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 claims | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 claims | nsubj |
| 24 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 25 claims | advmod |
| 25 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 appears | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 share | det |
| 27 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 claims | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 spoil | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spoil | det |
| 30 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 share | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 pope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | one of the variants of the story | a pope or priest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | priest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | claim speech: other | present | Pope | a share | the spoil | immediately property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent share=Topic | ||
| 4 | vary | the story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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