Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 90
[42] _Voevoda_, now a general, formerly meant a civil governor, etc.
What happens: mean · To what, where: civil governor
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 42 | punct |
| 2 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 general | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 42 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Voevoda | punct |
| 5 | Voevoda | Voevoda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 42 | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Voevoda | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 general | punct |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 general | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 general | det |
| 10 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 meant | punct |
| 12 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 13 meant | advmod |
| 13 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 general | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 governor | det |
| 15 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 governor | amod |
| 16 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meant | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 etc. | punct |
| 18 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 10 general | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | a civil governor | formerly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent governor=Topic |
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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