Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 43
According to Mr. Babington, "Sanjivi is defined by the Tamuls to be a medicine which restores to life by dissipating a mortal swoon....
Who acts: Tamuls, medicine · What happens: accord, define, be, restore, dissipate · To what, where: Sanjivi, medicine, life, mortal swoon
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 (Tamuls, medicine), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Babington | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Babington | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Babington | Babington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 defined | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Babington | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sanjivi | punct |
| 7 | Sanjivi | Sanjivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 defined | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 defined | aux:pass |
| 9 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Tamuls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tamuls | det |
| 12 | Tamuls | Tamul | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 defined | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 medicine | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 medicine | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 medicine | det |
| 16 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 defined | advcl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 restores | nsubj |
| 18 | restores | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 restores | obl |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 dissipating | mark |
| 22 | dissipating | dissipate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 restores | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 swoon | det |
| 24 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 swoon | amod |
| 25 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dissipating | obj |
| 26 | .... | .... | PUNCT | _ | 9 defined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | define in a quote | present · passive | the Tamuls | Sanjivi | accord Babington Mr. | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tamuls not said here | a medicine | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | restore in a quote | present | a medicine | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | dissipate in a quote | gerund | a medicine not said here | a mortal swoon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent swoon=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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