Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 152
"Wherefore are you weeping so bitterly, O lord King?"
Who acts: you · What happens: weep, lord · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 2 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 weeping | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weeping | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 weeping | nsubj |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 bitterly | advmod |
| 7 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 5 weeping | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lord | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 10 lord | discourse |
| 10 | lord | lord | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 weeping | conj |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lord | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | you | bitterly, wherefore property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lord in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | King | tree rules |
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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