Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 126
The commune rewarded the Cossack with a sum of money, and ordered that witch to be drowned.
Who acts: commune · What happens: reward, order, drown, sum · To what, where: Cossack, witch, money
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (commune), 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 commune | det |
| 2 | commune | commune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rewarded | nsubj |
| 3 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cossack | det |
| 5 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rewarded | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sum | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sum | det |
| 8 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rewarded | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sum | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ordered | cc |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rewarded | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 witch | det |
| 15 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 drowned | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drowned | aux:pass |
| 18 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ordered | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rewarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | past | the commune | the Cossack | with a sum of money | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent cossack=Recipient with sum=Theme | |||
| 2 | order | past | that witch | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drown | to-infinitive · passive | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 4 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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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