Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 72
In another version of the same story[199] a son is ordered by his parents to marry his sister after their death.
Who acts: parents, son · What happens: order, marry, die · To what, where: son, version, sister
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 (parents, son), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 version | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 version | det |
| 3 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 version | nmod |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 199 | punct |
| 9 | 199 | 199 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 story | appos |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 199 | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ordered | aux:pass |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 parents | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 parents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ordered | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sister | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marry | obj |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 death | nmod:poss |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marry | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present · passive | corner's parents | a son | another version of the same story | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | a son not said here | corner's sister | after parents's death | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | |||
| 3 | die | parents = parent | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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