Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 86
God grant the kingdom of heaven to him at whose cost it was built!"
Who acts: God · What happens: grant, build · To what, where: kingdom, bridge, cost
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 (God), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grant | nsubj |
| 2 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grant | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heaven | case |
| 6 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grant | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 cost | case |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 cost | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 built | obl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 built | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 built | aux:pass |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 grant | advcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 built | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | present | God | the kingdom of heaven | bridge | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to he=Goal | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | kingdom | cost | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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