Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 7
He is to plough a great field, and sow a hundred bushels of corn.
Who acts: Rakshasa · What happens: be, sow · To what, where: hundred bushels
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 (Rakshasa), 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 | 4 plough | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plough | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 plough | mark |
| 4 | plough | plough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 field | amod |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plough | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sow | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sow | cc |
| 10 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 plough | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 bushels | nummod |
| 13 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sow | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 corn | case |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bushels | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rakshasa | plough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sow | infinitive | Rakshasa not said here | hundred bushels of corn | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme |
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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