Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 100
Whatsoever that son says--it shall be done: whatsoever he desires--that will the Lord bestow!'"
Who acts: son, bridge, Lord · What happens: say, do, desire, bestow · To what, where: Whatsoever, work, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, bridge, Lord), 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 | Whatsoever | whatsoever | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 says | obj |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 done | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 desires | punct |
| 11 | whatsoever | whatsoever | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 desires | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 desires | nsubj |
| 13 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 bestow | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bestow | obj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bestow | aux |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lord | det |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bestow | nsubj |
| 19 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 desires | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 bestow | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 bestow | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 desires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | that son | Whatsoever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | shall · passive | work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | desire | present | bridge | whatsoever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatsoever=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bestow | future | the Lord | that | tree rules |
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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