Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 31
_ _Pomin_ = "remembrance," also "prayers for the dead."
Who acts: Pomin · What happens: pray
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 (Pomin), 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 Pomin | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pomin | punct |
| 3 | Pomin | Pomin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembrance | punct |
| 5 | = | = | SYM | _ | 7 remembrance | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembrance | punct |
| 7 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Pomin | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 also | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 also | punct |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 Pomin | advmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 also | punct |
| 12 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 dead | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dead | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 dead | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | Pomin | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/55/31/