Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 150
"If I die, make the priest's son read the psalter over me three nights running."
Who acts: sudden daughter, son, three nights · What happens: die, make, read, run · To what, where: psalter
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 (sudden daughter, son, three nights), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 die | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 priest | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | nsubj |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 psalter | det |
| 13 | psalter | psalter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 read | obl |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 nights | nummod |
| 17 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 read | obl |
| 18 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 nights | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the King's sudden daughter = daughter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | read in a quote | past | the priest's son | the psalter | night | over the King's sudden daughter = daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic | ||
| 4 | run in a quote | gerund | three nights not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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