Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 138
The poor brother and his wife are returning home disconsolately from a party given by the rich brother in honor of his son's marriage.
Who acts: poor brother, son · What happens: return, give, honor, marry · To what, where: party, honor, marriage
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brother, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returning | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wife | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 returning | aux |
| 8 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 returning | advmod |
| 10 | disconsolately | disconsolately | ADV | _ | 8 returning | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 party | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 party | det |
| 13 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returning | obl |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 party | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brother | det |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brother | amod |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl:agent |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 honor | case |
| 20 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 marriage | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 son | case |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 honor | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present · progressive | the poor brother and brother's wife | a party | disconsolately, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from party=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | participle | a party not said here | honor of brother's son's marriage | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | honor | brother's son's marriage | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | marry | brother's son | nom marriage «state transitive»: 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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