Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 129
Whatever voices may cry aloud "Strike again!" they must remain contented with a single blow.
Who acts: voices · What happens: cry, remain, content · 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 (voices), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 voices | det:predet |
| 2 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cry | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | aux |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 4 cry | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Strike | punct |
| 7 | Strike | Strike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cry | vocative |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 cry | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 remain | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 remain | aux |
| 13 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cry | ccomp |
| 14 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 remain | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 blow | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blow | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blow | amod |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contented | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | may | whatever voices | again | Strike vocative; aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | remain | must | voices = voice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | content | participle | voices = voice not said here | with a single blow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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