Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 118

Canoe, canoe, float to the waterside; That is my mother calling me.

Who acts: Canoe, That, mother · What happens: float, be, call · To what, where: waterside, mother, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Canoe, That, mother), 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	Canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 float	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 canoe	punct
3	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Canoe	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 float	punct
5	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 waterside	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waterside	det
8	waterside	waterside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 float	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
10	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 mother	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mother	cop
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 float	obl
14	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 mother	acl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 calling	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 float	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	float	infinitive	Canoe and canoe			the waterside	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to waterside=Destination
2	is a	present	That	my mother			tree rules
3	call	gerund	my mother not said here		me		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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