Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 115
The Tartars, during their inroads, used to burn towns and villages, kill old folks and infants, and carry off young people.
Who acts: Tartars · What happens: use, burn, kill, carry off · To what, where: inroads, towns, old folks, young people
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tartars), 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 Tartars | det |
| 2 | Tartars | Tartar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 inroads | punct |
| 4 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 inroads | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 inroads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | inroads | inroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Tartars | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 used | punct |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 inroads | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 burn | mark |
| 10 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | advcl |
| 11 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 burn | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 villages | cc |
| 13 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 towns | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 folks | amod |
| 17 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 kill | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 infants | cc |
| 19 | infants | infant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 folks | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carry | cc |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kill | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 carry | compound:prt |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carry | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | Tartars's inroads not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | burn | to-infinitive | towns and villages | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent town=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill | present | the Tartars during Tartars's inroads | old folks and infants | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry off | infinitive | the Tartars during Tartars's inroads not said here | young people | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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