Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 99
Once, when Sozh was away from home, the old father was deceived by his wife into giving the elder son's blessing to the younger son.
Who acts: Sozh, wife, elder son · What happens: be, deceive, give, bless · To what, where: old father, home, blessing, younger son
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 (Sozh, wife, elder son), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 deceived | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 away | mark |
| 4 | Sozh | Sozh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 away | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 away | cop |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 deceived | advcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deceived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 home | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 father | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 father | amod |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deceived | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deceived | aux:pass |
| 14 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deceived | obl |
| 18 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 19 giving | mark |
| 19 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 deceived | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 son | det |
| 21 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 son | amod |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 son | case |
| 24 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 giving | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 son | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 son | det |
| 27 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 son | amod |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 giving | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 deceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sozh | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deceive | past · passive | Dnieper's wife | the old father | home | once property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||
| 3 | give | gerund | Dnieper's wife not said here | the elder son's blessing | the younger son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 4 | bless | the elder son | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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