Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 36

[238] Properly speaking "grief," that which morally _krushit_ or crushes a man.

Who acts: that · What happens: speak, krushit, crush · To what, where: grief, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	_	2 238	punct
2	238	238	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 238	punct
4	Properly	properly	ADV	_	5 speaking	advmod
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 238	advcl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grief	punct
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speaking	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grief	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grief	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 krushit	nsubj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 krushit	nsubj
12	morally	morally	ADV	_	14 krushit	advmod
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 krushit	punct
14	krushit	krushit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grief	conj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 krushit	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 crushes	cc
17	crushes	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 krushit	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crushes	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 238	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund		grief and krushit	properly property	tree rules
2	krushit		that		morally property	tree rules
3	crush	present	that not said here	a man		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

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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