Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 26
The corpse held its peace, not uttering a word; no doubt the time for it to speak had not come yet.
Who acts: corpse, time · What happens: hold, not utter, speak, not come, pacify · To what, where: peace, word, doubt · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (corpse, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:4394): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 corpse | det |
| 2 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 peace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 uttering | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 uttering | advmod |
| 8 | uttering | utter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 held | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uttering | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 doubt | det |
| 13 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 speak | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 speak | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 speak | mark |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 held | parataxis |
| 23 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the corpse | corpse's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not utter speech: other | gerund | the corpse not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | corpse | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not come | past · perfect | the time | no doubt | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | pacify | corpse | nom peace «state 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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