Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 93
That rite was abolished by 4 Geo. iv. c. 52.
Who acts: 4 Geo · What happens: abolish · To what, where: rite
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 (4 Geo), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 rite | det |
| 2 | rite | rite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 abolished | aux:pass |
| 4 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Geo | case |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Geo | nummod |
| 7 | Geo | geo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 abolished | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 iv | punct |
| 9 | iv | iv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Geo | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 abolished | punct |
| 11 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 abolished | parataxis |
| 12 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 c. | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 abolished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abolish | past · passive | 4 Geo and iv | that rite | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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