Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 70
They wrangled and wrangled, but neither could gain the mastery in the dispute, so they decided upon the following course:--
Who acts: Volga · What happens: wrangle, gain, decide, follow · To what, where: mastery
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 (Volga), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrangled | nsubj |
| 2 | wrangled | wrangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wrangled | cc |
| 4 | wrangled | wrangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wrangled | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gain | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 gain | cc |
| 7 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 9 gain | advmod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 gain | aux |
| 9 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrangled | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mastery | det |
| 11 | mastery | mastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gain | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dispute | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dispute | det |
| 14 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mastery | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decided | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 decided | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 decided | nsubj |
| 18 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrangled | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 course | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 course | det |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 course | amod |
| 22 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decided | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrangled | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrangle | past | Volga | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wrangle | participle | Volga not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gain | could | the mastery | in the dispute; neither property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mastery=Extent in dispute=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | decide | past | Volga | upon the following course | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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