Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 12
One of these states that when the Lord had created Adam and Eve, he stationed at the gates of Paradise the dog, then a clean beast, giving it strict orders not to give admittance to the Evil One.
Who acts: Lord, One · What happens: create, station, give, not give · To what, where: states, clean beast, gates, beast, admittance, Evil One
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 stationed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 states | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 states | det |
| 4 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 created | obj |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 created | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lord | det |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 created | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 created | aux |
| 10 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 states | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 created | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Eve | cc |
| 13 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Adam | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stationed | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stationed | nsubj |
| 16 | stationed | station | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 gates | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gates | det |
| 19 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stationed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Paradise | case |
| 21 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gates | nmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Paradise | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 beast | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 beast | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 beast | det |
| 27 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beast | amod |
| 28 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stationed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 30 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 stationed | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 giving | obj |
| 32 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 orders | amod |
| 33 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 giving | obj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 give | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 give | mark |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 giving | advcl |
| 37 | admittance | admittance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 One | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 One | det |
| 40 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 One | amod |
| 41 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past · perfect | the Lord | this states | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | station | past | One of this states | a clean beast | the gates of Paradise | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at gate=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | gerund | One of this states not said here | beast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not give | to-infinitive | One of this states not said here | admittance | the Evil One | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent admittance=Theme to one=Recipient |
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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