Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 16
But one day "when he was fevered with wine, as he sat at the ship's side and musingly regarded the waves, he said: 'Oh, Mother Volga, thou great river! much hast thou given me of gold and of silver, and of all good things; thou hast nursed me, and nourished me, and covered me with glory and honor.
Who acts: Stenka, thou, much · What happens: fever, sit, regard, say, river, have · To what, where: Stenka, side, waves, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stenka, thou, much), 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 | _ | 8 fevered | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fevered | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 fevered | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fevered | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fevered | aux:pass |
| 8 | fevered | fever | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 said | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 wine | case |
| 10 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fevered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 sat | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fevered | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 regarded | cc |
| 21 | musingly | musingly | ADV | _ | 22 regarded | advmod |
| 22 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sat | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 waves | det |
| 24 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 regarded | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fevered | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 Volga | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 Volga | punct |
| 30 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 33 Volga | discourse |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Oh | punct |
| 32 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Volga | compound |
| 33 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 said | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 river | punct |
| 35 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 river | nsubj |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 river | amod |
| 37 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Volga | appos |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 39 much | punct |
| 39 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 hast | nsubj |
| 40 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | parataxis |
| 41 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 hast | obj |
| 42 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 hast | advcl |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 given | iobj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 gold | case |
| 45 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 given | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 silver | cc |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 silver | case |
| 48 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gold | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 things | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 things | cc |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 things | case |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 things | det |
| 53 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 things | amod |
| 54 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 hast | conj |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 nursed | punct |
| 56 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 58 nursed | nsubj:pass |
| 57 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 nursed | aux |
| 58 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 said | conj |
| 59 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 nursed | obj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 nourished | punct |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 nourished | cc |
| 62 | nourished | nourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | parataxis |
| 63 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 62 nourished | obj |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 covered | punct |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 covered | cc |
| 66 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 nourished | conj |
| 67 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 66 covered | obj |
| 68 | with | with | ADP | _ | 69 glory | case |
| 69 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 covered | obl |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 honor | cc |
| 71 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 glory | conj |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fever in a quote | past · passive | Stenka | day | with wine | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit in a quote | past | Stenka | the ship's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location | ||||
| 3 | regard in a quote | past | Stenka not said here | the waves | musingly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: express in a quote | past | Stenka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | river in a quote | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | much | thou | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||||
| 7 | give in a quote | participle | much not said here | Stenka | of gold and silver | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 8 | nurse in a quote | present · perfect · passive | thou | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | |||||
| 9 | nourish in a quote | past | Stenka | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 10 | cover in a quote | past | Stenka | with glory and honor | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with glory=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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