Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 143

But while the Dnieper was rushing along in anger, he drove his way between steep banks.

Who acts: Dnieper · What happens: rush, drive · To what, where: anger, way, steep banks

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dnieper), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 drove	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 rushing	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dnieper	det
4	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rushing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rushing	aux
6	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 drove	advcl
7	along	along	ADV	_	6 rushing	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 anger	case
9	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rushing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rushing	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drove	nsubj
12	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drove	obj
15	between	between	ADP	_	17 banks	case
16	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 banks	amod
17	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 way	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	past · progressive	the Dnieper			anger		along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Trajectory
2	drive	past	Dnieper	Dnieper's way		steep banks			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme between bank=Destination

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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