Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 186
"Hail, brother!" calls out the Soldier.
Who acts: Hail · What happens: call out · To what, where: Soldier
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hail), 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 Hail | punct |
| 2 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hail | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 7 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 calls | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Soldier | det |
| 10 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 calls | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | present | Hail and brother | the Soldier | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient |
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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