Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 100
The people were gathered together from all sides--a countless number.
What happens: gather · To what, where: people, sides
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | aux:pass |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 gathered | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sides | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sides | det |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathered | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 number | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 11 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 number | amod |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sides | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · passive | the people | all sides | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from side=Source |
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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