Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 67

From the assaults of such a Rakshasa as this it was that Buddha, who was at the time a monkey, preserved himself and 80,000 of his brother monkeys, by suggesting that they should drink from the tank in which the demon lay in wait for them, "through reeds previously made completely hollow by their breath."

Who acts: Buddha, water, assaults, demon, reeds · What happens: be, suggest, drink, lie, make, assault · To what, where: assaults, tank, Rakshasa · 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 (Buddha, water, assaults, 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 assaults	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 assaults	det
3	assaults	assault	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 preserved	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Rakshasa	case
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 Rakshasa	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Rakshasa	det
7	Rakshasa	Rakshasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 assaults	nmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 preserved	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 preserved	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 preserved	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 preserved	mark
13	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 preserved	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 time	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 time	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 time	cop
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Buddha	appos
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 monkey	det
21	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Buddha	punct
23	preserved	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 preserved	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 80,000	cc
26	80,000	80000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 preserved	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 monkeys	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 monkeys	nmod:poss
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 monkeys	compound
30	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 80,000	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 suggesting	punct
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 suggesting	mark
33	suggesting	suggest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 preserved	advcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 drink	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 drink	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 drink	aux
37	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 suggesting	ccomp
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 tank	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tank	det
40	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drink	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 lay	obl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 demon	det
44	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lay	nsubj
45	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 tank	acl:relcl
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 wait	case
47	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lay	obl
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 wait	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 drink	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 drink	punct
52	through	through	SCONJ	_	55 made	mark
53	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 made	nsubj
54	previously	previously	ADV	_	55 made	advmod
55	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 drink	advcl
56	completely	completely	ADV	_	57 hollow	advmod
57	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 made	xcomp
58	by	by	ADP	_	60 breath	case
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 breath	nmod:poss
60	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 made	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 preserved	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 preserved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Buddha			at the time		tree rules
2	is	past	water		the assaults of such Rakshasa		as this; 80,000 of monkey's brother monkeys obl; preserve property	tree rules
3	suggest speech: suggest	gerund	water not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drink	should	assaults = assault		the tank			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tank=Source
5	lie	past	the demon		the tank		in wait for assaults	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
6	make in a quote	past	reeds				by assaults's breath; hollow, previously property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	assault			such Rakshasa				nom assault «act transitive»: of=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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