Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 67

She tells the hero, Saktideva, that the demon has just died from a wound inflicted upon him, while transformed into a boar, by a bold archer.

Who acts: lady, demon · What happens: tell, die, inflict, transform · To what, where: hero, wound, boar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, demon), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Saktideva	punct
6	Saktideva	Saktideva	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hero	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 died	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 demon	det
10	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 died	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 died	advmod
13	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 tells	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 wound	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wound	det
16	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	obl
17	inflicted	inflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wound	acl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 inflicted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 transformed	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 transformed	mark
22	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 inflicted	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 boar	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boar	det
25	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transformed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 archer	punct
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 archer	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 archer	det
29	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 archer	amod
30	archer	archer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transformed	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	lady	the hero			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient
2	die	present · perfect	the demon		a wound		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from wound=Causer
3	inflict	participle		a wound not said here		upon demon	tree rules
4	transform	participle				into a boar result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into boar=Result

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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