Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 37

He cried aloud, "If there be a living man there, let him make answer! who has slain this mighty host?"

Who acts: Anna · What happens: cry, be, let, make, slay · To what, where: living man, Anna, answer, mighty host · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anna), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 cried	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 be	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 be	expl
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 man	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 man	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 slain	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 slain	nsubj
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 slain	aux
21	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 make	advcl
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 host	det
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 host	amod
24	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slain	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Anna			aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	infinitive		a living man	there		tree rules
3	let in a quote	infinitive		Anna			tree rules
4	make in a quote	infinitive	Anna not said here	answer			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product
5	slay in a quote	present · perfect		this mighty host			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Patient

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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