Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 165

The sorcerers of the present day are supposed to be able to direct whirlwinds, and a not uncommon form of imprecation in some parts of Russia is "May the whirlwind carry thee off!"

Who acts: May · What happens: suppose, be, direct, form · To what, where: sorcerers, parts, whirlwinds, whirlwind carry, imprecation

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (May), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sorcerers	det
2	sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 supposed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorcerers	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 supposed	aux:pass
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 carry	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 able	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	cop
11	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 supposed	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 direct	mark
13	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	xcomp
14	whirlwinds	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 direct	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 form	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 form	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 form	det
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 uncommon	advmod
19	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 form	amod
20	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 supposed	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 imprecation	case
22	imprecation	imprecation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 form	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 parts	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 parts	det
25	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 supposed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Russia	case
27	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 parts	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 carry	cop
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 May	punct
30	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 carry	nsubj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 carry	det
32	whirlwind	whirlwind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 carry	amod
33	carry	carry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
34	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 off	nsubj
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 carry	compound
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 carry	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose	present · passive		the sorcerers of the present day	some parts of Russia		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	is	to-infinitive				able property	tree rules
3	direct	to-infinitive		whirlwinds			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent whirlwind=Eventuality
4	is a in a quote	present	May	the whirlwind carry			tree rules
5	form			imprecation			nom form «communication 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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