Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 135
Katoma was left sitting on the stump, weeping bitter tears.
Who acts: Katoma · What happens: leave, sit, weep · To what, where: Katoma, stump, bitter tears
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: who acts (Katoma), 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 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 left | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stump | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stump | det |
| 7 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weeping | punct |
| 9 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sitting | conj |
| 10 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tears | amod |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 weeping | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Katoma | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | Katoma not said here | the stump | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | Katoma not said here | bitter tears | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
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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