Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 139
Its song, according to Bohemian legends, heals the sick and restores sight to the blind.
Who acts: song, notice · What happens: accord, heal, restore, sing · To what, where: sick, sight, blind
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, notice), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 song | nmod:poss |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heals | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 legends | punct |
| 4 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 legends | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 according | fixed |
| 6 | Bohemian | bohemian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legends | amod |
| 7 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 song | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 song | punct |
| 9 | heals | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sick | det |
| 11 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heals | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 restores | cc |
| 13 | restores | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heals | conj |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 restores | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 blind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blind | det |
| 17 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 restores | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | heal | present | notice's song and Bohemian legends | the sick | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sick=Patient | ||||
| 3 | restore | present | notice's song and Bohemian legends not said here | sight | the blind | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sight=Theme to blind=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sing | notice | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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