Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 74
They wage constant war with mankind, but the heroes of storyland find them as easily overcome as the males of their family.
Who acts: beings, heroes · What happens: wage, find, overcome · To what, where: constant war, beings
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 (beings, heroes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wage | nsubj |
| 2 | wage | wage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 war | amod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wage | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mankind | case |
| 6 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wage | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heroes | det |
| 10 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 storyland | case |
| 12 | storyland | storyland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heroes | nmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wage | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 overcome | mark |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 17 overcome | advmod |
| 17 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 find | advcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 males | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 males | det |
| 20 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 overcome | obl:agent |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 family | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 males | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wage | present | beings = being | constant war | with mankind | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | present | the heroes of storyland | beings = being | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 3 | overcome | participle | the heroes of storyland not said here | easily property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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