Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 71
"Let us lie down together to sleep," they said, "and whichever of us is the first to rise, and the quickest to reach the Caspian Sea, she shall be held to be the wiser of us two, and the stronger and the worthier of respect."
Who acts: us, Volga, whichever, two · What happens: let, lie down, sleep, say, be, rise · To what, where: us, Caspian Sea, Vazuza · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (us, Volga, whichever, two), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lie | advmod |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 lie | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lie | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 first | cc |
| 16 | whichever | whichever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 first | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 whichever | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 first | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 first | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 rise | mark |
| 23 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 first | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 quickest | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 quickest | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 quickest | det |
| 27 | quickest | quick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 first | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 reach | mark |
| 29 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 quickest | csubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Sea | det |
| 31 | Caspian | Caspian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sea | compound |
| 32 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 reach | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 held | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 held | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 held | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 held | aux:pass |
| 37 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 wiser | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 wiser | cop |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wiser | det |
| 41 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 held | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 us | case |
| 43 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 wiser | obl |
| 44 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 wiser | nsubj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 stronger | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 stronger | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 stronger | det |
| 48 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 said | parataxis |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 worthier | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 worthier | det |
| 51 | worthier | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 48 stronger | conj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 respect | case |
| 53 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 worthier | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 stronger | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie down in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | down, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Volga | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | whichever of us | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | rise in a quote | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | reach in a quote | to-infinitive | the Caspian Sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | |||||
| 8 | hold in a quote | shall · passive | Vazuza | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | two | of us; wise property | 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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