Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 138
[186] Became a _nevyesta_, a word meaning "a marriageable maiden," or "a betrothed girl," or "a bride."
Who acts: 186, word · What happens: become, mean, betroth · To what, where: nevyesta, marriageable maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (186, word), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Became | punct |
| 2 | 186 | 186 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Became | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 186 | punct |
| 4 | Became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nevyesta | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 nevyesta | punct |
| 7 | nevyesta | nevyesta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Became | xcomp |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 nevyesta | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 word | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nevyesta | appos |
| 12 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 word | acl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 maiden | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 15 | marriageable | marriageable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maiden | amod |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meaning | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 maiden | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 maiden | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 girl | cc |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 girl | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 22 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 maiden | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Became | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Became | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 bride | cc |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 bride | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bride | det |
| 29 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Became | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 bride | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 bride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | 186 | a nevyesta | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a word not said here | a marriageable maiden or a betrothed girl | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | ||||
| 3 | betroth in a quote | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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