Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 151

Nikita obtains the mace he wants, which weighs fifty poods, or nearly a ton, and leaves the forge.

Who acts: Nikita · What happens: obtain, want, weigh, leave · To what, where: mace, fifty poods, forge

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nikita), 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	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 obtains	nsubj
2	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mace	det
4	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtains	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 obtains	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weighs	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 weighs	nsubj
9	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wants	conj
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 poods	nummod
11	poods	pood	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weighs	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ton	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 ton	cc
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 ton	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ton	det
16	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poods	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leaves	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 leaves	cc
19	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 obtains	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forge	det
21	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaves	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 obtains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	obtain	present	Nikita	the mace	tree rules
2	want	present	Nikita		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	weigh	present		fifty poods or a ton	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pood=Value
4	leave	present	Nikita not said here	the forge	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forge=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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