Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 49
"May the Lord grant us his blessing!"
Who acts: grant · What happens: bless
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 (grant), 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 | _ | 2 May | punct |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 blessing | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grant | det |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grant | compound |
| 5 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blessing | nsubj |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 blessing | nsubj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 blessing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blessing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless in a quote | grant | nom blessing «act transitive»: 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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