Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 12
In the Ramayana, Hanuman fetches four different kinds of herbs in order to resuscitate his dead monkeys: "the first restore the dead to life, the second drive away all pain, the third join broken parts, the fourth cure all wounds, &c." Talboys Wheeler, "History of India," ii.
Who acts: Hanuman, first · What happens: fetch, resuscitate, restore, break · To what, where: four different kinds, Ramayana, dead monkeys, dead, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hanuman, first), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Ramayana | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ramayana | det |
| 3 | Ramayana | Ramayana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fetches | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ramayana | punct |
| 5 | Hanuman | Hanuman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fetches | nsubj |
| 6 | fetches | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 kinds | nummod |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kinds | amod |
| 9 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fetches | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 herbs | case |
| 11 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kinds | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 order | case |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fetches | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 resuscitate | mark |
| 15 | resuscitate | resuscitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fetches | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 monkeys | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 monkeys | amod |
| 18 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 resuscitate | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 restore | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 restore | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 first | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 restore | nsubj |
| 23 | restore | restore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 fetches | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dead | det |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 restore | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 restore | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 away | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 drive | det |
| 30 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 drive | amod |
| 31 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 away | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 restore | advmod |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 pain | det |
| 34 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 away | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 join | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 join | det |
| 37 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 join | amod |
| 38 | join | join | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 restore | conj |
| 39 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 parts | amod |
| 40 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 join | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 cure | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 cure | det |
| 43 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 44 cure | amod |
| 44 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 parts | appos |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 wounds | det |
| 46 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 cure | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 c. | punct |
| 48 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 49 c. | cc |
| 49 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fetches | obl |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Talboys | punct |
| 51 | Talboys | Talboys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 c. | appos |
| 52 | Wheeler | Wheeler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Talboys | flat |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 History | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 History | punct |
| 55 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 Talboys | appos |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 India | case |
| 57 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 History | nmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 History | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Talboys | punct |
| 60 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 51 Talboys | list |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fetches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | present | Hanuman | four different kinds of herbs | the Ramayana | in order; c. obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | resuscitate | to-infinitive | Hanuman not said here | Hanuman's dead monkeys | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent monkey=Patient | ||||
| 3 | restore in a quote | infinitive | the first | the dead | life | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to life=Recipient | ||
| 4 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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