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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 55

In "The Youth,"[154] a moujik, who has lost his way in a forest makes the rash promise to a man who enables him to cross a great river; "and that man (says the story) was a devil."

Who acts: moujik, man · What happens: lose, make, enable, cross, say, be · To what, where: way, forest, rash promise, Youth, great river, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik, man), 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

casepunctdetoblpunctpunctpunctappospunctdetnsubjpunctnsubjauxacl:relclnmod:possobjcasedetobldetcompoundobjcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclobjmarkadvcldetamodobjpunctpunctccdetnsubjpunctacl:relcldetobjpunctcopdetconjpunctpunctrootInADP"PUNCTTheDETYouthPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCT[PUNCT154NUM]PUNCTaDETmoujikNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhasAUXlostVERBhisPRONwayNOUNinADPaDETforestNOUNmakesVERBtheDETrashNOUNpromiseNOUNtoADPaDETmanNOUNwhoPRONenablesVERBhimPRONtoPARTcrossVERBaDETgreatADJriverNOUN;PUNCT"PUNCTandCCONJthatDETmanNOUN(PUNCTsaysVERBtheDETstoryNOUN)PUNCTwasAUXaDETdevilNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_4 Youthcase
2""PUNCT_4 Youthpunct
3ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Youthdet
4YouthYouthPROPNNumber=Sing21 makesobl
5,,PUNCT_4 Youthpunct
6""PUNCT_4 Youthpunct
7[[PUNCT_8 154punct
8154154NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card4 Youthappos
9]]PUNCT_8 154punct
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 moujikdet
11moujikmoujikNOUNNumber=Sing21 makesnsubj
12,,PUNCT_15 lostpunct
13whowhoPRONPronType=Rel15 lostnsubj
14hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 lostaux
15lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part11 moujikacl:relcl
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 waynmod:poss
17waywayNOUNNumber=Sing15 lostobj
18ininADP_20 forestcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 forestdet
20forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing15 lostobl
21makesmakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 promisedet
23rashrashNOUNNumber=Sing24 promisecompound
24promisepromiseNOUNNumber=Sing21 makesobj
25totoADP_27 mancase
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 mandet
27manmanNOUNNumber=Sing24 promisenmod
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel29 enablesnsubj
29enablesenableVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 manacl:relcl
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 enablesobj
31totoPART_32 crossmark
32crosscrossVERBVerbForm=Inf29 enablesadvcl
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 riverdet
34greatgreatADJDegree=Pos35 riveramod
35riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing32 crossobj
36;;PUNCT_21 makespunct
37""PUNCT_21 makespunct
38andandCCONJ_48 devilcc
39thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem40 mandet
40manmanNOUNNumber=Sing48 devilnsubj
41((PUNCT_42 sayspunct
42sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin40 manacl:relcl
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 storydet
44storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing42 saysobj
45))PUNCT_42 sayspunct
46wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin48 devilcop
47aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art48 devildet
48devildevilNOUNNumber=Sing21 makesconj
49..PUNCT_48 devilpunct
50""PUNCT_48 devilpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1losepresent · perfecta moujikyouth's waya forestvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2makepresenta moujikthe rash promisethe Youthto a manvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product
3enablepresenta manyouthtree rules
4crossto-infinitivea man not said herea great rivervn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
5say speech: assert in a quotepresentthat man not said herethe storyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic
6is a in a quotepastthat mana deviltree 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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