Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 26
_ exactly our "God bless us;" with us now merely an expression of surprise.
Who acts: God · What happens: bless · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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 | _ | 6 bless | punct |
| 2 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 God | advmod |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 God | nmod:poss |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 God | punct |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bless | nsubj |
| 6 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bless | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 bless | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bless | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bless | obl |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 expression | advmod |
| 13 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 15 expression | advmod |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 expression | det |
| 15 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bless | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 surprise | case |
| 17 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expression | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless in a quote | infinitive | our God | us | with us; a expression of surprise obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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