Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 10
The two maimed heroes form an alliance.
Who acts: two maimed heroes · What happens: maim, form · To what, where: alliance
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two maimed heroes), 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 | 4 heroes | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 heroes | nummod |
| 3 | maimed | maim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heroes | amod |
| 4 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 form | nsubj |
| 5 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 alliance | det |
| 7 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 form | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maim | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | form | present | the two maimed heroes | a alliance | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alliance=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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