Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 7
He lived a long while, and was looked upon by the village as a _Koldun_ [or wizard].
Who acts: Moujik · What happens: live, look
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moujik), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 while | amod |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | aux:pass |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lived | advcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 village | case |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 village | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 village | det |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 Koldun | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Koldun | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Koldun | punct |
| 17 | Koldun | Koldun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 village | nmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Koldun | punct |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 21 wizard | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 wizard | cc |
| 21 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Koldun | parataxis |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 21 wizard | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Moujik | while | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past · passive | Moujik not said here | upon the village as a Koldun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: upon village=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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