Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 176
May the Zluidni strike him!" is a Little-Russian curse, and "The Zluidni have got leave for three days; not in three years will you get rid of them!" is a White-Russian proverb.
Who acts: Zluidni, you, Russian curse · What happens: strike, be, get, leave · To what, where: form, Russian curse, Russian proverb · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Zluidni, you, Russian curse), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 strike | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Zluidni | det |
| 3 | Zluidni | Zluidni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 strike | nsubj |
| 4 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 curse | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strike | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 strike | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 strike | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 curse | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 curse | det |
| 10 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Russian | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Little | punct |
| 12 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 curse | amod |
| 13 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 proverb | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Zluidni | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Zluidni | det |
| 18 | Zluidni | Zluidni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 got | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | aux |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 curse | parataxis |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 got | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 days | nummod |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 leave | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 get | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 years | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 years | nummod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 get | obl |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 get | aux |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 get | nsubj |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 got | parataxis |
| 33 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 get | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 rid | obl |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 get | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 proverb | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 proverb | det |
| 40 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Russian | amod |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 White | punct |
| 42 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 proverb | amod |
| 43 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 proverb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | may | the Zluidni | form | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a Russian curse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | present · perfect | the Zluidni | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | the Zluidni not said here | day | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | future | you | year | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | a Russian curse | a Russian proverb | tree rules |
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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