Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 48
"There was a wedding in the house of a rich moujik," replied his relatives, "but the bride and bridegroom have died this very night--what from, nobody knows."
Who acts: relatives, bride, nobody · What happens: be, die, know · To what, where: night · 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 (relatives, bride, nobody), 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 | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 replied | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wedding | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wedding | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 moujik | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moujik | det |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moujik | amod |
| 12 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 17 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 died | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bride | det |
| 22 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 died | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bridegroom | cc |
| 24 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bride | conj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 died | aux |
| 26 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 replied | conj |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 night | det |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 night | advmod |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 died | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 knows | punct |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 knows | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 what | case |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 knows | punct |
| 34 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 knows | nsubj |
| 35 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 night | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | past | wedding's relatives | reply property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | present · perfect | the bride and bridegroom | night | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | nobody | this night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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