Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 97
He had two sons--the elder called Sozh, and the younger Dnieper.
Who acts: man · What happens: have, call · To what, where: two sons, elder · 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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sons | nummod |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 elder | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 elder | det |
| 7 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sons | appos |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 elder | acl |
| 9 | Sozh | Sozh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dnieper | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Dnieper | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dnieper | det |
| 13 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 Dnieper | amod |
| 14 | Dnieper | Dnieper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | two sons | the younger Dnieper obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the elder not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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