Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 117
The Wends say that if a vampire is hit over the back of the head with an implement of that kind, he will squeal like a pig.
Who acts: Wends, back · What happens: say, hit, squeal · To what, where: vampire, back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wends, back), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wends | det |
| 2 | Wends | wend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 hit | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 hit | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vampire | det |
| 7 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hit | aux:pass |
| 9 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 squeal | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 back | det |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 implement | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 implement | det |
| 18 | implement | implement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 kind | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 kind | det |
| 21 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 implement | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hit | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 squeal | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 squeal | aux |
| 25 | squeal | squeal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 pig | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 pig | det |
| 28 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 squeal | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Wends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hit a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a vampire | the back of the head | with a implement of that kind | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with implement=Instrument | |||
| 3 | squeal | future | back | like a pig | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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