Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 9

When Likho sleeps, awake it not," says a proverb common to Poland and South Russia.

Who acts: Likho · What happens: sleep, not awake, say · To what, where: xvii, proverb · 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 (Likho), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sleeps	advmod
2	Likho	Likho	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sleeps	nsubj
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 awake	punct
5	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sleeps	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 awake	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 awake	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sleeps	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 proverb	det
12	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 proverb	amod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Poland	case
15	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 common	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 South	cc
17	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Poland	conj
18	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 South	flat
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sleep	present	Likho		tree rules
2	not awake	infinitive	Likho not said here	xvii	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present		a proverb	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent proverb=Topic

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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